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==Forms== | ==Forms== | ||
===In the Kagyé=== | ===In the Kagyé=== | ||
Hayagriva is one of the eight principal deities of [[Kagyé]] where he is referred to as '''Lotus-like Speech''' ( | Hayagriva is one of the eight principal deities of [[Kagyé]] where he is referred to as '''Lotus-like Speech''' (པདྨ་གསུང་, ''pad+ma gsung''). The instructions related to this form of Hayagriva are based on the so-called "[[three neighs of the horse]]"<ref>See Kongtrul (2005), p. 322</ref> | ||
In the [[Longchen Nyingtik]], the Hayagriva practice related to [[Palchen Düpa]] is called "The Play of the Three Realms" ( | In the [[Longchen Nyingtik]], the Hayagriva practice related to [[Palchen Düpa]] is called "The Play of the Three Realms" (རྟ་མགྲིན་ཁམས་གསུམ་རོལ་པ་, ''rta mgrin khams gsum rol pa''). | ||
==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
Revision as of 21:16, 22 June 2018
Hayagriva (Skt. Hayagrīva; Tib. རྟ་མགྲིན་, Tamdrin; Wyl. rta mgrin) — the wrathful manifestation of Avalokiteshvara who symbolizes enlightened speech, usually depicted as red in colour and with a horse's head protruding from his crown.
Forms
In the Kagyé
Hayagriva is one of the eight principal deities of Kagyé where he is referred to as Lotus-like Speech (པདྨ་གསུང་, pad+ma gsung). The instructions related to this form of Hayagriva are based on the so-called "three neighs of the horse"[1]
In the Longchen Nyingtik, the Hayagriva practice related to Palchen Düpa is called "The Play of the Three Realms" (རྟ་མགྲིན་ཁམས་གསུམ་རོལ་པ་, rta mgrin khams gsum rol pa).
Notes
- ↑ See Kongtrul (2005), p. 322
Further Reading
- Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé, The Treasury of Knowledge: Systems of Buddhist Tantra, Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005