abhisheka

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see also dbang; dbang bskur.

give/ perform/ confer abhisheka/ empowerment/ authority/ power/ right to [eg as in India kings were empowered, in mandala of secret mantra] listening, explaining, practicing empowerments, placing in one's being purification of stains of faults and the power of meditation on the path]. [IW]

confer (initiation, consecration), empowerment, bless, grant, benediction (power bestow). [JV]

empowerment; [among the subsidiary yogas in a sadhana; detailed expl., Light of Wisdom, Vol. 2, page 120]. [RY]

empowerment; empowerment ritual; Abhisheka, to perform empowerment, abhisheka, to confer empowerment; to confer initiation. [RY]

give/ perform / confer abhisheka/empowerment [required entrance ceremony for the tantra vehicles]. [IW]

give/ perform/ confer abhisheka/ empowerment/ authority/ power/ right to. [IW]

dbang bskur - Abhisheka. [RY]