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'''Nine demeanours (or styles) of a wrathful deity''' (Tib. གར་གྱི་ཉམས་དགུ, ''gar gyi nyam gu'', [[Wyl.]] ''gar gyi nyams dgu'') — there are three of the body, three of the speech and three of the mind.
'''Nine demeanours (or styles) of a wrathful deity''' (Skt. ''navanāṭyarasa'', Tib. གར་གྱི་ཉམས་དགུ, ''gar gyi nyam gu'', [[Wyl.]] ''gar gyi nyams dgu'') — there are three of the body, three of the speech and three of the mind.<ref>One source for these nine demeanours is the Hevajra Tantra, 2nd segment, chapter 5, v. 26. (Tib. སྒེག་ཅིང་དཔའ་བོ་མི་སྡུག་པ། །རྒོད་ཅིང་དྲག་ཤུལ་འཇིགས་རུང་བ། །སྙིང་རྗེ་རྔམ་དང་ཞི་བ་ཡིས། །གར་དགུའི་རོ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཉིད།)</ref>.


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#yearning (to tame others)/magnificent power ( Skt. ''adbhūta''; Wyl. ''rngams pa'')
#yearning (to tame others)/magnificent power ( Skt. ''adbhūta''; Wyl. ''rngams pa'')
#peace/tranquility (Skt. ''śānti''; Wyl. ''zhi ba'')
#peace/tranquility (Skt. ''śānti''; Wyl. ''zhi ba'')
==Alternative translations==
*Dramatic sentiments
*Dramatic airs (Gyurme Dorje, Treasury of Knowledge book 6)
*Emotions of drama (Farrow and Menon, Concealed Essence of Hevajra Tantra)
==Notes==
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Nine demeanours (or styles) of a wrathful deity (Skt. navanāṭyarasa, Tib. གར་གྱི་ཉམས་དགུ, gar gyi nyam gu, Wyl. gar gyi nyams dgu) — there are three of the body, three of the speech and three of the mind.[1].

The three of the body are:

  1. enticing/seductive/captivating ( Skt. lāsya; Wyl. sgeg pa)
  2. heroic (Skt. vīra; Wyl. dpa' ba)
  3. terrifying/ferocious (Wyl. 'jigs su rung ba)

The three of the speech are:

  1. menacing laughter (Wyl. rgod pa)
  2. harsh and threatening/stern (Wyl. gshe ba)
  3. ferocious/wrathful and thunderous ( Skt. ūgra; Wyl. drag shul)

The three of the mind are:

  1. compassion (Skt. kāruṇika; Wyl. snying rje)
  2. yearning (to tame others)/magnificent power ( Skt. adbhūta; Wyl. rngams pa)
  3. peace/tranquility (Skt. śānti; Wyl. zhi ba)

Alternative translations

  • Dramatic sentiments
  • Dramatic airs (Gyurme Dorje, Treasury of Knowledge book 6)
  • Emotions of drama (Farrow and Menon, Concealed Essence of Hevajra Tantra)

Notes

  1. ↑ One source for these nine demeanours is the Hevajra Tantra, 2nd segment, chapter 5, v. 26. (Tib. སྒེག་ཅིང་དཔའ་བོ་མི་སྡུག་པ། །རྒོད་ཅིང་དྲག་ཤུལ་འཇིགས་རུང་བ། །སྙིང་རྗེ་རྔམ་དང་ཞི་བ་ཡིས། །གར་དགུའི་རོ་དང་ལྡན་པ་ཉིད།)
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