84000 Glossary of Terms

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དུས་ཀྱི་ཞགས་པ་ཅན་མ། | Glossary of Terms

  • དུས་ཀྱི་ཞགས་པ་ཅན་མ།

  • dus kyi zhags pa can ma
  • kālapāśā
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  • Kālapāśā
  • དུས་ཀྱི་ཞགས་པ་ཅན་མ།
  • dus kyi zhags pa can ma
  • kālapāśā
Definition in this text:

Literally, “the noose of time,” the term generally refers to the noose wielded by Yama, the lord of death. Because this term is in the feminine, it is likely meant to refer to the personification of that noose as a rākṣasī.