In the chapter colophons of The Tantra of Black Yamāri, the term samaya is used to refer to a body of rites or practices described in the preceding chapter. The Tibetan translators translated this use of samaya with cho ga, thus emphasizing the meaning “rite” or “procedure” from among samaya’s many meanings.

Also translated here as “procedure.”

Also translated here as “ceremony.”

A ritual or a rite; in our presentation it is translated as “ritual” when it refers to a group or a cycle of rites, and as “rite” when it refers to an individual rite (the distinction, however, is blurred). The term can also refer to a text that is a collection of rites, such as the AP, in the sense of a manual of rites.