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'''Mahakala''' (Skt. mahākāla; Tib. [[མགོན་པོ་]], ནག་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་, [[Wyl.]] ''nag po chen po'', but usually ''mgon po'') - a supermundane <ref>A supermundane dharma protector is an enlightened being while a mundane protector is a samsaric being.</ref> [[dharma protector]] who appears in a number of forms, such as Four-arm Mahakala, [[Six-arm Mahakala]], [[Bernakchen]], [[Gönpo Maning]] and [[Pañjaranatha]] (Gurgyi Gönpo).
'''Mahakala''' (Skt. mahākāla; Tib. [[མགོན་པོ་]], ནག་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་, [[Wyl.]] ''nag po chen po'', but usually ''mgon po'') - a supermundane <ref>A supermundane dharma protector is an enlightened being while a mundane protector is a samsaric being.</ref> [[dharma protector]] who appears in a number of forms, such as Four-arm Mahakala, [[Six-arm Mahakala]], [[Bernakchen]], [[Maning Nakpo]] and [[Pañjaranatha]] (Gurgyi Gönpo).


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Revision as of 18:38, 19 June 2018

Mahakala (Skt. mahākāla; Tib. མགོན་པོ་, ནག་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་, Wyl. nag po chen po, but usually mgon po) - a supermundane [1] dharma protector who appears in a number of forms, such as Four-arm Mahakala, Six-arm Mahakala, Bernakchen, Maning Nakpo and Pañjaranatha (Gurgyi Gönpo).

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  1. A supermundane dharma protector is an enlightened being while a mundane protector is a samsaric being.