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'''Akashagarbha''' (Skt. ''Ākāśagarbha''; Tib. ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་, ''Namkhé Nyingpo''; [[Wyl.]] ''nam mkha'i snying po'') — one of the [[eight great bodhisattvas]]. Akashagarbha is associated with space (aksasha, [[ཨཱ་ཀཱ་ཤ་]], A kA sha.) He is often depicted as yellow in colour and holding a sword to cut through the [[destructive emotions]]. | '''Akashagarbha''' (Skt. ''Ākāśagarbha''; Tib. ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་, ''Namkhé Nyingpo''; [[Wyl.]] ''nam mkha'i snying po'') — one of the [[eight great bodhisattvas]]. Akashagarbha is associated with the element of space (aksasha, [[ཨཱ་ཀཱ་ཤ་]], A kA sha.) He is often depicted as yellow in colour and holding a sword to cut through the [[destructive emotions]]. | ||
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Akashagarbha (Skt. Ākāśagarbha; Tib. ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་, Namkhé Nyingpo; Wyl. nam mkha'i snying po) — one of the eight great bodhisattvas. Akashagarbha is associated with the element of space (aksasha, ཨཱ་ཀཱ་ཤ་, A kA sha.) He is often depicted as yellow in colour and holding a sword to cut through the destructive emotions.
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Further Reading
- Jamgön Mipham, A Garland of Jewels, (trans. by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso), Woodstock: KTD Publications, 2008