སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་ཆེན་མོ། | Glossary of Terms
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སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་ཆེ།
- སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་ཆེན་མོ།
- sgyu ’phrul chen mo
- sgyu ’phrul che
- mahāmāyā
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- Mahāmāyā
- སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་ཆེན་མོ།
- sgyu ’phrul chen mo
- mahāmāyā
The female central deity of the Mahāmāyā Tantra who appears in the form of the male Heruka. She was also a popular form of the Brahmanical great goddess (Mahādevī), to whom the Buddhist figure is intimately related. Also rendered here as “Great Illusion.”
- Mahāmāyā
- སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་ཆེ།
- sgyu ’phrul che
- mahāmāyā
The name of a Buddhist deity, typically male despite the feminine ending. The name, meaning “Great Illusion,” is here used as an epithet of Sitātapatrā.
- Great Illusion
- སྒྱུ་འཕྲུལ་ཆེན་མོ།
- sgyu ’phrul chen mo
- mahāmāyā
The female central deity of the Mahāmāyā Tantra who appears in the form of the male Heruka. She was also a popular form of the Brahmanical great goddess (Mahādevī), to whom the Buddhist figure is intimately related. Also rendered here as “Mahāmāyā.”