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'''Humkara''' (Skt. Hūṃkara; Tib. ཧཱུྃ་ཀ་ར་, [[ཧཱུྃ་མཛད་]], [[Wyl.]] ''hUM ka ra'' or ''hUM mdzad'') — one of the [[eight vidyadharas]] of India; he received the Vishudda (Tib. [[Yangdak Heruka]]) tantra from the [[Kagyé]] cycle.
'''Humkara''' (Skt. Hūṃkara; Tib. ཧཱུྃ་ཀ་ར་, [[ཧཱུྃ་མཛད་]], [[Wyl.]] ''hUM ka ra'' or ''hUM mdzad'') — one of the [[eight vidyadharas]] of India; he received the Vishudda (Tib. [[Yangdak Heruka]]) tantra from the [[Kagyé]] cycle.


==Further Reading==
*[[Dudjom Rinpoche]], ''The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism'', trans. and ed. Gyurme Dorje (Boston: Wisdom, 1991), pages 475-477.


[[Category:Eight Vidyadharas]]
[[Category:Eight Vidyadharas]]
[[Category:Indian Masters]]
[[Category:Indian Masters]]

Revision as of 13:59, 6 January 2012

Humkara (Skt. Hūṃkara; Tib. ཧཱུྃ་ཀ་ར་, ཧཱུྃ་མཛད་, Wyl. hUM ka ra or hUM mdzad) — one of the eight vidyadharas of India; he received the Vishudda (Tib. Yangdak Heruka) tantra from the Kagyé cycle.

Further Reading

  • Dudjom Rinpoche, The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, trans. and ed. Gyurme Dorje (Boston: Wisdom, 1991), pages 475-477.