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good kalpa, golden age [IW]
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[[che mchog]] - Most Supreme. Chemchok Heruka. Usually identical with [[Nectar Quality]], the chief heruka of the Ratna Family. Sometimes, in the case of [[Assemblage of Sugatas]], the Most Supreme is the [[heruka]] who embodies all the buddha families [RY]
  
Paltrul Rinpoche: [[bskal pa]] [['di]] [[ma chags pa]]'i [[sngon rol du]] [[stong gsum thams cad]] [[chu'i rgya mtsho chen po gcig tu gyur]] [[te]] [[yod pa]] [[la]] [[me tog pad ma 'dab ma stong ldan]] [[stong]] [[skyes nas]] [['dug pa]] [[gtsang ris kyi lha]] [[rnams]] [[kyis]] [[rgyu mtshan ci yin zhes]] [[mngon shes]] [[kyis]] [[brtags pa]]s [[da res]] [[kyi]] [[bskal pa]] [['di la]] [[sangs rgyas]] [[stong]] [['byon pa]]r [[de'i don gyis]] [[yin par]] [[shes te]] [[da res]] [[kyi]] [[bskal pa]] [['di ni]] [[bskal pa bzang po]] [[yin no]] [[zhes]] [[bskal pa]]'i [[ming]] [[bzang po]] [[btags pa]] [[bzhin]] - Before our kalpa arose, this cosmos of a billion universes was an immense ocean on whose surface appeared a thousand-petaled lotuses. The gods of the Brahma-world, wondering how this could be, through clairvoyance understood it to signify that during this kalpa one thousand Buddhas would appear. "This will be a good kalpa", they said, and "Good" became its name [RY]
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[[che mchog he ru ka]] - Mahottara Heruka, the central figure of the Eight Sadhana Teachings; Chemchok Heruka, the Supreme Heruka [RY]
  
good kalpa [Auspicious/fortunate/ kalpa, bhadrakalpa, [our present world period blessed by the appearance of a buddha, a golden age [that has 1000 buddhas], the kalpa of light [[sgron me'i bskal pa]], happy times] [IW]
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[['jig rten ma mo - Mundane Mother Deities. One of the Eight Sadhana Teachings. Female divinities manifested out of dharmadhatu but appearing in ways that correspond to mundane appearances through the interrelationship between the mundane world and the channels, winds, and essences within our body. They have both an ultimate and relative aspect. The chief figure in this [[mandala]] is Chemchok Heruka, the wrathful form of Buddha [[Samantabhadra]] in the form known as Ngöndzok Gyalpo, the King of True Perfection. See {[[ma mo]]} [RY]
  
bhadrakalpa; 1) Auspicious Aeon. 2) Bhadrakalpa. 3) fortunate aeon. 4) the good aeon. 5) our present world period. 6) a Golden Age. Syn [[sgron me'i bskal pa]]. 7) happy times. 8) blessed period. [i.e. the period blessed by the appearance of a Buddha] [RY]
 
  
Good Aeon, Skt. bhadrakalpa). This present [[aeon]] in which one thousand buddhas will appear, lasting no less than 160 million years [RY]
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[[dpal chen khro bo dbu dgu]] - Glorious Wrathful One, the nine-faced. The miraculously appeared image of Chemchok Heruka in the form of a mountain in Kham [RY]
  
good kalpa [IW]
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[[ma mo]] - Mamo. Abbreviation of 'Mundane Mother Deities' ([['jig rten ma mo]]). One of the Eight Sadhana Teachings. Female divinities manifested out of [[dharmadhatu]] but appearing in ways which correspond to mundane appearances through the interrelationship between the mundane world and the [[channels, winds, and essences]] within our body. They have both an ultimate and relative aspect. The chief figure in this mandala is [[Chemchok Heruka]], the wrathful form of Buddha [[Samantabhadra]] in the form known as [[Ngöndzok Gyalpo]], the King of True Perfection. 2) A class of semi-divine beings who sometimes act as protectors of the Dharma [RY]
  
  
  
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Latest revision as of 11:26, 18 February 2006

che mchog - Most Supreme. Chemchok Heruka. Usually identical with Nectar Quality, the chief heruka of the Ratna Family. Sometimes, in the case of Assemblage of Sugatas, the Most Supreme is the heruka who embodies all the buddha families [RY]

che mchog he ru ka - Mahottara Heruka, the central figure of the Eight Sadhana Teachings; Chemchok Heruka, the Supreme Heruka [RY]

[['jig rten ma mo - Mundane Mother Deities. One of the Eight Sadhana Teachings. Female divinities manifested out of dharmadhatu but appearing in ways that correspond to mundane appearances through the interrelationship between the mundane world and the channels, winds, and essences within our body. They have both an ultimate and relative aspect. The chief figure in this mandala is Chemchok Heruka, the wrathful form of Buddha Samantabhadra in the form known as Ngöndzok Gyalpo, the King of True Perfection. See {ma mo} [RY]


dpal chen khro bo dbu dgu - Glorious Wrathful One, the nine-faced. The miraculously appeared image of Chemchok Heruka in the form of a mountain in Kham [RY]

ma mo - Mamo. Abbreviation of 'Mundane Mother Deities' ('jig rten ma mo). One of the Eight Sadhana Teachings. Female divinities manifested out of dharmadhatu but appearing in ways which correspond to mundane appearances through the interrelationship between the mundane world and the channels, winds, and essences within our body. They have both an ultimate and relative aspect. The chief figure in this mandala is Chemchok Heruka, the wrathful form of Buddha Samantabhadra in the form known as Ngöndzok Gyalpo, the King of True Perfection. 2) A class of semi-divine beings who sometimes act as protectors of the Dharma [RY]