84000 Glossary of Terms

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རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད། | Glossary of Terms

  • རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད།

  • rnal ’byor chen po’i rgyud
  • mahā­yoga­tantra
  • Term
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  • mahāyoga
  • རྣལ་འབྱོར་ཆེན་པོའི་རྒྱུད།
  • rnal ’byor chen po’i rgyud
  • mahā­yoga­tantra
Definition in this text:

A term used to describe the later tantras of the Yoga class that incoporated more transgressive pactices and a wrathful aesthetic. Typified by the Guhya­samāja­tantra and Guhya­garbha­tantra.