ཤུ་ཀྲ། | Glossary of Terms

ཁུ་བ།
ཤུ་ཀྲ།

shu kra
khu ba

śukra

Term

Publications: 3

Appears in our translations as:

2

semen

Summary of Empowerment

semen

ཁུ་བ།

khu ba

śukra

28 passages contain this term

The Tantra of Caṇḍamahāroṣaṇa

semen

ཤུ་ཀྲ།
ཁུ་བ།

shu kra
khu ba

śukra

Definition in this text:

The word śukra may also refer to the female sexual fluid.

39 passages contain this term

1

śukra

Equal to the Sky

śukra

ཤུ་ཀྲ།

shu kra

śukra

Definition in this text:

Resplendent or clear liquid; here, referring specifically to the seminal drop residing at the crown of all human bodies.

1 passage contains this term

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AS

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AO

Attested in other text

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AD

Attested in dictionary

This term is attested in dictionaries matching Tibetan to the corresponding language.

AA

Approximate attestation

The attestation of this name is approximate. It is based on other names where the relationship between the Tibetan and source language is attested in dictionaries or other manuscripts.

RP

Reconstruction from Tibetan phonetic rendering

This term is a reconstruction based on the Tibetan phonetic rendering of the term.

RS

Reconstruction from Tibetan semantic rendering

This term is a reconstruction based on the semantics of the Tibetan translation.

SU

Source unspecified

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