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ཁྲག་ཐུང་

Transliteration: khrag thung

Mis-spelling of ཁྲག་འཐུང་ q.v.

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གར་གྱི་ཉམས་དགུ་

Transliteration: gar gyi nyams dgu

<phrase> "The nine moods of dance". This means the nine ཉམས་ modes of expression or moods of a wrathful or semi-wrathful deity such as an ཁྲག་ཐུང་ heruka q.v. [DGT] gives as: 1) སྒེག་པ་ "charm"; 2) དཔའ་བ་ "bravery"; 3) མི་སྡུག་པ་ "unpleasant"; 4) དྲག་ཤུལ་ "savage"; 5) བཞད་གད་ "laughter"; 6) འཇིགས་རུང་ "fearsome"; 7) སྙིང་རྗེ་ "compassionate"; 8) རྔམས་པ་ "awesome"; 9) ཞི་བ་ "peaceful".
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ཁྲག་འཐུང་

Transliteration: khrag 'thung

<noun> Lit. "blood-drinker". Translation of the Sanskrit "heruka". The general name given to semi-wrathful and wrathful male ཡི་དམ་ yidams of the higher tantras. E.g., འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག་ Chakrasaṃvara is one of the herukas of the anuttarayogatantra class.

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ཐུང་ཐུང་

Transliteration: thung thung

<adj><adv> The comparative form is ཐུང་བ་ q.v. The opp. is རིང་པོ་ q.v. 1) "Short" in regard to either distance or time. Hence also "close". E.g., གཟུགས་པོ་ཐུང་ཐུང་ "(a) short (person)", "short-bodied"; དུས་ཐུང་ཐུང་ "a short time". 2) "Small" in reference to mind, style of thinking. E.g., བསམ་བློ་ཐུང་ཐུང་མ་གཏོང་། "don't think small!"; བསམ་པ་ཐུང་ཐུང་ "small-minded".

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ཁྲག་

Transliteration: khrag

<noun> "Blood". Translation of the Sanskrit "rakta". i) One of the ལུས་ཟུངས་བདུན་ seven body constituents q.v. ii) One of མངལ་སྐྱེས་ཁམས་དྲུག་ "the six elements of birth in a womb" q.v.

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ཐོད་ཁྲག་

Transliteration: thod khrag

<phrase> Secret mantra terminology. 1) "Skullcup of blood". One of the symbolic items carried in the hand of some deities of secret mantra, usually female ones. 2) "Blood skull-cup", "rakta kapāla". One of the ritual implements of human practitioners of secret mantra. It represents the meaning of the item carried by the deities. Used especially in ཚོགས་འཁོར་ feast gathering. See also ཐོད་ཆང…

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ཤ་ཁྲག་

Transliteration: sha khrag

<phrase> Abbrev. of ཤ་ "flesh / meat" and ཁྲག་ "blood".

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ཤ་ཟ་ཁྲག་འཐུང་

Transliteration: sha za khrag 'thung

<noun> [Mngon] "Flesh-eater-and-blood-drinker" an epithet of the ཤ་ཟ་ "flesh-eaters" q.v.

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ཨ་ཐུང་

Transliteration: aa thung

<noun> "Short "a"". The name given to a special symbol in གསང་སྔགས་ secret mantra, གཏུམ་མོ་ inner heat practice.

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ཁུ་ཁྲག་

Transliteration: khu khrag

"Semen and blood" meaning the semen of the father and the ovum of the mother (which is connected with blood), the initial embryo mixture of the semen with uterine blood by which process, according to Indian medicine, the foetus is formed. These are related in tantra to the two bodhicittas, red and white.

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ཐུང་བ་

Transliteration: thung ba

I. <adj><adv> Of degree for ཐུང་ཐུང་ q.v. If something is ཐུང་ཐུང་ "short" or "small" something ཐུང་བ་ is "shorter" or "smaller".
II. <noun> "Shorter". One of the eight sub-divisions of དབྱིབས་ཀྱི་གཟུགས་བརྒྱད་ visual shape q.v.

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