Difference between revisions of "Three Mantras"

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-== .1 ==
+[[guhya mantra]], [[vidya mantra]] and [[dharani mantra]]
-The peculiarity of the Tibetan mode of writing in distinctly marking the word-syllables, but not the words ([[Abbreviations|cf.]] [[4. Syllables|4]]) composed of two or more of these, sometimes renders is doubtful what is to be rgarded as one word.
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+[[Category: Key Terms]][[Category: Tantra]][[Category: Vajrayana]][[Category: Tantric Deities]]
-There exist a great number of small monosyllables, which serve for denoting different shades of notions, grammatical relations etc., and are postponed to the word in question; but never alter its original shape, though their own initials are not seldom influenced by its final consonant ([[Abbreviations|cf.]] [[15. Declension.|15]]).
-== .3 ==
-Such monosyllables may conveniently be regarded as terminations, forming one word together with the preceeding nominal or verbal root.
-== .4 ==
-The accent is, in such cases, most naturally given to the root, or, in compounds, generally to the latter part of the composition, as: ''[[mig]]'' ,eye', ''[[mig gi]]'' ,of the eye'; ''[[lag]]'' ,hand', [[lag shubs]]'' ,'hand covering, glove'.
-== .5 ==
-<BR><BR>Click here to go to the front page of the [[Second Edition of H.A. Jaeschke's 'Tibetan Grammar']]