ཤེས་རབ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་དབང་བསྐུར་
Transliteration: shes rab ye shes kyi dbang bskur
<noun> "prajñā jñāna empowerment". Translation of the Sanskrit "prajñājñāna abhiṣheka". The third of དབང་བཞི་ four empowerments contained in a complete empowerment of the higher tantras and one of ཟབ་དབང་གསུམ་ "the three profound empowerments". From the perspective of the classification into outer, inner, secret, and very secret, it is classified as the secret level of empowerment.
The name…
ཤེས་རབ་མ་
Transliteration: shes rab ma
<noun> "prajñā lady". The female, who is the prajñā one as opposed to the male, who is the upaya one. In some cases it means spiritual consort e.g., see ཤེས་རབ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་དབང་བསྐུར་ "prajñā jñāna empowerment".
ཟབ་དབང་གསུམ་
Transliteration: zab dbang gsum
<phrase> "The three profound empowerments". This term refers to the last three of the four empowerments which as a group make up a complete empowerment in the highest levels of secret mantra. The first empowerment of the four is only at the level of rational mind and hence is not transcendent. The remaining three are at the transcendent level, hence they are called "profound" and grouped to…
ཤེས་རབ་
Transliteration: shes rab
<noun> "prajñā". Translation of the Sanskrit "prajñā". Defined as pra "a better or the best kind of" jñā "knowing or mind". This refers to the intelligent portion of a person's mind. It is like intelligence but is used slightly differently because intelligence is the general faculty of being able to understand using the intellect and can range from very dull to very acute whereas "prajñā" m…
དབང་བཞི་
Transliteration: dbang bzhi
<phrase> "The four empowerments". A complete empowerment, called a དབང་ཆེན་ "great empowerment", in the anuttarayogatantra of the གསར་འགྱུར་ new translation system of secret mantra, contains four levels of empowerments. [DGT] gives as: 1) བུམ་དབང་ "the vase empowerment"; 2) གསང་དབང་ "the secret empowerment"; 3) ཤེས་རབ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་དབང་བསྐུར་ "the prajñājñāna empowerment"; 4) དབང་བཞི་པ་ "the f…
ཡེ་ཤེས་ལ་དབང་བ་
Transliteration: ye shes la dbang ba
<noun> "Control over wisdom". One of the དབང་བཅུ་ "ten controls" q.v.
དབང་བསྐུར་
Transliteration: dbang bskur
<noun> "Empowerment(s)". Translation of the Sanskrit "abhiśheka". Empowerment generally speaking is the ritual that one has to go through in order to enter the གསང་སྔགས་རྡོ་རྗེ་ཐེག་པ་ secret mantra vajra vehicle. It used to be translated "initiation" but that is inaccurate and does not convey the correct sense. See the verb form དབང་བསྐུར་བ་ for more.
ཡེ་ཤེས་དབང་པོ་
Transliteration: ye shes dbang po
<noun> 1) The name of a person; see སྦ་གསལ་སྣང་. 2) Abbrev. of ཡེ་ཤེས་ཀྱི་དབང་པོ་ "The wisdom faculty".
དབང་བསྐུར་བ་
Transliteration: dbang bskur ba
I. <verb> v.t. see སྐུར་བ་ for tense forms. "To bestow empowerment", "to empower". The term derives from the ancient practice in India which also is found in Europe and other countries of anointing a person who is being enthroned into a position of power. In ancient India, the person assuming a king's throne would have consecrated water poured on their head as the central symbol of investin…
ཤེས་རབ་བསྐྱངས་
Transliteration: shes rab bskyangs
<noun> "prajñāpāla". Translation of the Sanskrit "prajñāpāla". See པཱ་ལ་རྣམ་གསུམ་ "the three Pālas".
ལྷའི་དབང་བསྐུར་
Transliteration: lha'i dbang bskur
<noun> "Empowerment of the (a) deity". 1) The དབང་བསྐུར་ empowerment into a deity's maṇḍala. There are other types of empowerment, such as the empowerment (coronation) of a king; this is the empowerment of a deity. 2) "Deity empowerment(s)". An empowerment section, usually found in the བུམ་དབང་ vase empowerments, which deals with empowerments of the various deities of the enlightened famili…
