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འཇིགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད། | Glossary of Terms
འཇིགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།
’jigs pa mi bzad pa brgyad
aṣṭadāruṇabhaya
- Term
- Eight dangers
- འཇིགས་པ་བརྒྱད།
- འཇིགས་པ་བརྒྱད།
- ’jigs pa brgyad
- ’jigs pa brgyad
- aṣṭamahābhaya
- aṣṭaghora
Listed in Tārā Who Protects from the Eight Dangers as lions, elephants, fire, snakes, robbers, waters, infectious diseases, and demons. A more common enumeration gives “imprisonment” rather than “infectious diseases.”
- Eight fears
- འཇིགས་པ་བརྒྱད།
- ’jigs pa brgyad
- aṣṭabhaya
Fear of lions, elephants, fire, snakes, drowning, bondage, thieves, and demons.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Eight great dangers
- འཇིགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།
- ’jigs pa chen po brgyad
- aṣṭamahābhaya
Dangers posed by lions, elephants, fire, snakes, drowning, bondage, thieves, and demons.
Warning: Readers are reminded that according to Vajrayāna Buddhist tradition there are restrictions and commitments concerning tantra. Practitioners who are not sure if they should read this translation are advised to consult the authorities of their lineage. The responsibility for reading this text or sharing it with others who may or may not fulfill the requirements lies in the hands of readers.
- Eight great fears
- འཇིགས་པ་ཆེན་པོ་བརྒྱད།
- འཇིགས་པ་མི་བཟད་པ་བརྒྱད།
- ’jigs pa chen po brgyad
- ’jigs pa mi bzad pa brgyad
- aṣṭamahābhaya
- aṣṭadāruṇabhaya
The eight are the fear of (1) drowning, (2) thieves, (3) lions, (4) snakes, (5) fire, (6) demons, (7) imprisonment, and (8) elephants. They are also sometimes referred to as the eight unbearable (dāruṇa, mi bzad pa) fears.
- Eight perils
- འཇིགས་པ་བརྒྱད།
- ’jigs pa brgyad
- aṣṭa bhayāni
Lions, elephants, fire, snakes, thieves, rivers, imprisonment, and demons.