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'''Empowerment''' ([[dbang]]), ([[dbang bskur]]).


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The conferring of power or authorization to practice the Vajrayana teachings, the indispensable entrance door to tantric practice. Empowerment gives control over one's inherent [[Vajra Body]], [[Vajra Speech]] and [[Vajra Mind]] and the authority to regard forms as [[Deity]], sounds as [[Mantra]] and thoughts as [[Wisdom]]. See also '[[Four Empowerments]].' [RY]
Since every consonant sign implies, like its [[Sanscrit]] prototype, a following ''a'', unless some other vowel sign is attached to it, no particular sign is wanted to denote this vowel, except in some cases specified in the following &&. The special vowel signs are [[character omitted]], [[character omitted]], [[character omitted]], pronounced respectively as ''e, i, o, u'' are in German, Italian and most other European languages, viz. [[character omitted]] like ''ay'' is ''say'', or ''e'' in ''ten'', like [[character omitted]] ''i'' in ''machine'', ''tin''; [[character omitted]] like ''o'' in ''so'', ''on''; [[character omitted]] like ''u'' in ''rule, pull''. It ought to be specially remarked that all vowels, including ''e'' and ''o'' (unlike the [[Sanscrit]] vowels from whom they have taken their signs) are short, since no long vowels at all occur in the Tibetan language, except particular circumstances, mentioned below ([[Abbreviations|s.]] [[9. Word; Accent; Quantity#.5|9.5]], [[6. Dipthongs|6]]).
[[vajra speech]] [[vajra body]] [[vajra mind]]
 
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[[Category:Vajrayana]]
When the vowels are initial, ''[[:Category:a|a]]'' is used as their base, as is [[character omitted]] in Urdu, [[Abbreviations|e.g.]] ''[[a ma]]'' ,mother'.
 
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''[[:Category:'a|'a]]'' is originally different from ''[[:Category:a|a]]'', as the latter denotes the opening of the previously closed throat for pronouncing a vowel with that slight explosive sound which the Arabs mean by [[character omitted]] ([[character omitted]]), as the ''a'' in the words: the ''lily'', ''an'' endogen, which would be in Tibetan characters ''li li an''; ''[[:Category:'a|'a]]'' on the contrary is the mere vowel without that audible opening of the throat (as Arabic [[character omitted]] without [[character omitted]]), as in ''Lilian'', ''li li 'an''. In Eastern Tibet this difference is strictly observed; and ifthe vowelis ''o'' or ''u'' the intentional exercion for avoiding the sound of ''[[:Category:a|a]]'' which makes it resemble to ''wo'' and ''wu'': ''[['o ma]]'' ,the milk' almost like ''wo-ma'', ''[['ug pa]]'' ,the owl' = ''wug-pa''. In Western Tibet this has been obliterated, and ''[[:Category:'a|'a]]'' is there spoken just like ''[[:Category:a|a]]''.
 
 
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Revision as of 22:58, 29 January 2006

Empowerment (dbang), (dbang bskur).

The conferring of power or authorization to practice the Vajrayana teachings, the indispensable entrance door to tantric practice. Empowerment gives control over one's inherent Vajra Body, Vajra Speech and Vajra Mind and the authority to regard forms as Deity, sounds as Mantra and thoughts as Wisdom. See also 'Four Empowerments.' [RY] vajra speech vajra body vajra mind

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