- རིག་མ།
- ཤེས་རབ་མ།
- ཤེས་རབ།
- rig ma
- shes rab
- shes rab ma
- vidyā
- prajñā
- Term
- vidyā
- རིག་མ།
- rig ma
- vidyā
Knowledge; the power of mantra (of a female deity); female mantra deity; female consort in sexual yoga.
- vidyā
- རིག་མ།
- rig ma
- vidyā
An epithet of the female deity of the maṇḍala (most frequently as the consort of the main deity) who represents knowledge; the tantric consort; knowledge; frequently used in the sense of magical incantations and magical power. Also rendered here as “knowledge.”
- vidyā
- རིག་མ།
- rig ma
- vidyā
A term that at once refers to a type or a class of deity (typically female) and the spell used to harness their power, thereby reflecting their inseparability.
- vidyā
- རིག་མ།
- rig ma
- vidyā
A term that at once refers to a type or a class of deity (typically female) and the spell used to harness their power, thereby reflecting their inseparability.
A term for the consort—whether actual, imagined, or spontaneously realized—with which an initiated practitioner engages in sexual yoga in Buddhist tantric literature. This particular term invokes the general principle that the female half of the tantric couple is the perfect embodiment of insight or prajñā.
- knowledge
- རིག་མ།
- rig ma
- vidyā
An epithet of the female deity of the maṇḍala (most frequently as the consort of the main deity) who represents knowledge; the tantric consort; knowledge; frequently used in the sense of magical incantations and magical power. Also rendered here as “vidyā.”
- wisdom consort
- རིག་མ།
- ཤེས་རབ།
- rig ma
- shes rab
- vidyā
- prajñā
See “consort (female).”