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ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ལྔ་
Transliteration: phyag rgya lnga
<phrase> "The five symbols". The same as ཕྱག་རྒྱ་དྲུག་ six symbols / symbolic ornaments but with the cemetery ash omitted. Female deities of བླ་ན་མེད་པའི་རྒྱུད་ unsurpassed tantra wear only five of the six symbolic ornaments because the sixth symbolizes prajñā and the female deities are the embodiment of prajñā. E.g., regarding Kālachakra's consort [KLC] གཅེར་མོ་རུས་པའི་ཕྱག་རྒྱ་ལྔས་བརྒྱན་ཅི…

ཕྱག་རྒྱ་
Transliteration: phyag rgya
<noun> Translation of the Sanskrit "mudrā". The term has two main meanings. 1) A seal which is applied, e.g., a seal on government letters. 2) A gesture made with the body that symbolizes some meaning. E.g., when the hand is held out in the form of offering something, that is a mudrā, i.e., a gesture symbolizes the meaning of offering or giving.
With either or both of those two principle mea…