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Aggregates - [[phung po]], Skt. [[skandhas]],
[[sangs rgyas rigs brgya]] - Hundred Families of Buddhas. Those of the Forty-two Peaceful Deities and the Fifty-eight Wrathful Deities. or Blood-drinkers [RY]


class of terrifying deities, [[Heruka]], SA [[skyu ru ra]], blood drinker, general name of wrathful manifestations that appear in the Anuttara tantra mandalas [JV]


*The [[five aggregates]] are the basic component elements of form, feeling, perception, conditioning factors and consciousness. When they appear together, the illusion of self is produced in the ignorant mind. [AJP] from The Great Image ISBN 1-59030-069-6
1) [[Heruka]], [[Chakrasamvara]] 2) [[skyu ru ra]], emblic myrobalan, blood drinker, [[Heruka]], blood-drinking heruka, blood-drinker (wrathful deity, drink blood [IW]


[[Category:Key Terms]]
1) [[Heruka]], lit. 'blood-drinker'; a heruka; a wrathful deity; drinker of the ''blood of ego-clinging''. 2) drinking blood [RY]
 
 
 
 
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Latest revision as of 13:18, 7 March 2006

sangs rgyas rigs brgya - Hundred Families of Buddhas. Those of the Forty-two Peaceful Deities and the Fifty-eight Wrathful Deities. or Blood-drinkers [RY]

class of terrifying deities, Heruka, SA skyu ru ra, blood drinker, general name of wrathful manifestations that appear in the Anuttara tantra mandalas [JV]

1) Heruka, Chakrasamvara 2) skyu ru ra, emblic myrobalan, blood drinker, Heruka, blood-drinking heruka, blood-drinker (wrathful deity, drink blood [IW]

1) Heruka, lit. 'blood-drinker'; a heruka; a wrathful deity; drinker of the blood of ego-clinging. 2) drinking blood [RY]