གཞོན་ནུ་མ། | Glossary of Terms

གཞོན་ནུ་མ།

gzhon nu ma

kumārī

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kumārī

The Glorious Sovereign Tantra of Mahākāla

Kumārī

གཞོན་ནུ་མ།

gzhon nu ma

kumārī AS

Definition in this text:

A general term for a young girl or an epithet for the goddess Durgā. The Glorious Sovereign Tantra of Mahākāla refers to a group of kumārīs who can be depicted on a cloth canvas and then worshiped (see “seven kumārīs”).

1 passage contains this term

The Root Manual of the Rites of Mañjuśrī

kumārī

གཞོན་ནུ་མ།

gzhon nu ma

kumārī

Definition in this text:

A female kumāra.

4 passages contain this term

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AA

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RS

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