84000 Glossary of Terms
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མ་མོ། | Glossary of Terms
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བུད་མེད།
- མ་མོ།
- ma mo
- bud med
- mātṛ
- mātṛkā
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Publications: 8
Translation by Catherine Dalton · Heidi Koppl · James Gentry · Cortland Dahl · Hilary Herdman · Andreas Doctor
- Mātṛ
- མ་མོ།
- ma mo
- mātṛ
A god.
Translation by Peter Alan Roberts
- mātṛ
- བུད་མེད།
- bud med
- mātṛ
Also called Mātarā and Mātṛkā. Normally seven or eight in number, these goddesses are considered dangerous, but have a more positive role in the tantra tradition.
Translation by Wiesiek Mical
- mātṛ
- མ་མོ།
- ma mo
- mātṛ
A class of female spirits, sometimes called mother goddesses.
Translation by Wiesiek Mical · Anna Zilman · Andreas Doctor · Adam Krug
- mātṛ
- མ་མོ།
- ma mo
- mātṛ
A class of dangerous female spirits.
Translation by Wiesiek Mical
- mātṛkā
- མ་མོ།
- ma mo
- mātṛkā
“Mother,” any of the eight Śaiva goddesses of the class bearing the same name.
Translation by Wiesiek Mical
- mātṛkā
- མ་མོ།
- ma mo
- mātṛkā
A class of female spirits, the same as mātṛ.
Translation by Lozang Jamspal · Kaia Fischer · Erin Sperry
- mātṛkā
- མ་མོ།
- ma mo
- mātṛkā
“Mothers”; a class of female spirits common to both the Buddhist and Brahmanical pantheon. They are typically eight in number.
Translation by Catherine Dalton
- mātṛkā
- མ་མོ།
- ma mo
- mātṛkā