Difference between revisions of "Gektor"

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Gektor [IW]

torma to the obstructers [RY]

offerings made to avert the dangers caused by an evil spirit. [JV]

Gektor. A torma offering given to spirits and negative forces who may obstruct the sadhana practice [RY]

Gektor, 'hindrance torma', [for the obstructing forces, harmful spirits] [RY]

Gektor torma for obstructing spirits.] [IW]

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-[[byang sdom]] - bodhisattva precepts. According to the system of [[Nagarjuna]], the ''Chariot of the Profound View'', the precepts are to refrain from the following:
+Gektor [IW]
-*to steal the funds of the [[Three Jewels]];
-*to commit the act of forsaking the [[Dharma]];
-*to punish or cause to lose the precepts etc. people who possess or have lapsed from the trainings;
-*to commit the five acts with immediate result;
-*to violate the five definite precepts for a king, such as keeping wrong views and so forth;
-*to violate the five definitive precepts for a minister such as destroying a village, a valley, a city, a district, or a country;
-*to give premature teachings on [[emptiness]] to people who haven't trained in the [[Mahayana]];
-*to aspire towards the [[shravakas]] of the [[Hinayana]] after having reached the [[Mahayana]];
-*to train in the [[Mahayana]] after forsaking the [[Individual Liberation]];
-*to disparage the [[Hinayana]];
-*to praise oneself and disparage others;
-*to be highly hypocritical for the sake of honor and gain;
-*to let a monk receive punishment and be humiliated; to harm others by bribing a king or a minister in order to punish them;
-*to give the food of a renunciant meditator to a reciter of scriptures and thus causing obstacles for the cultivation of shamatha.
-*The eighty subsidiary infractions are to forsake the happiness of another being and so forth.
-According to the system of [[Asanga]], the ''Chariot of the Vast Conduct'', the precepts for the ''bodhichitta of aspiration'' are as follows:
+[[torma]] to the obstructers [RY]
-*to never forsake sentient beings,
-*to remember the benefits of bodhichitta,
-*to gather the accumulations,
-*to exert oneself in training in bodhichitta, as well as
-*to adopt and avoid the eight black and white deeds.
-The four precepts for the ''bodhichitta of application'' are ('''to avoid''' the following):<br>
+offerings made to avert the dangers caused by an evil spirit. [JV]
-) out of desire, to have exceeding attachment to honor and gain and to praise oneself and disparage others,<br>
-) out of stinginess, to refrain from giving material things, Dharma teachings and wealth to others,<br>
-) out of anger, to harm others and be unforgiving when offered an apology,<br>
-) out of stupidity, to pretend that indolence is [[Dharma]] and to teach that to others.
-The 46 minor infractions are to refrain from making offerings to the [[Three Jewels]] and so forth.
+Gektor. A [[torma]] offering given to spirits and negative forces who may obstruct the sadhana practice [RY]
-The [[four black deeds]] are:
+Gektor, 'hindrance torma', [for the obstructing forces, harmful spirits] [RY]
-*to deceive a venerable person,
-*to cause someone to regret what is not regrettable,
-*to disparage a sublime person, and
-*to deceive sentient beings.
-The four white are their opposites [RY]
+Gektor [[torma]] for obstructing spirits.] [IW]
-[[Category: Key Terms]] [[Category: Mahayana]][[Category: Sutra]] [[Category: Vajrayana]] [[Category: Tantra]][[Category: Teachings]]
+[[Category: Key Terms]] [[Category: Mahayana]] [[Category: Vajrayana]] [[Category: Tantra]]
+[[Category: Tantric Deities]] [[Category: Teachings]]

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