memo sorting table
| 大威德明王 daiitoku myo-o |
protect restraint of chaste non-emission | mahamudra siddhi | 執金剛 vajradhara |
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| anger | attachment | west red lotus |
妙観察智 སོ་སོར་རྟོག་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས discernment |
[to]produce[d]… | ||||
| 降三世明王 gozanze myo-o |
consciousness | perception | meditation | amitabha pandavaravasini |
成所作智 བྱ་བ་གྲུབ་པའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ all-accomplishing |
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| pledge… vajra, bell, mudra, guru |
east blue vajra |
earth-touching | water | fire | amoghasiddi samayatara |
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| akshobhya dhatvishvari |
form1 | space | air | fearleassness | north green double-vajra/sword |
homage… three jewels | ||
| 大円鏡智 མེ་ལོང་ལྟ་བུའི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ mirror |
teach- | vairochana | form1 | earth | formation | 金剛夜叉明王 kongo-yasha |
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| guard… five meats,five nectars… | teach- | 法界体性智 ཆོས་ཀྱི་དབྱིངས་ཀྱི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ absolute |
-ing | ratnasambhava mamaki/lochana |
generosity | feeling | jealousy | |
| ignorance | center white eight-spoke |
-ing | 平等性智 མཉམ་ཉིད་ཀྱི་ཡེ་ཤེས་ equality |
south yellow jewel |
conceit | |||
| 不動明王 fudo myo-o |
ignorance | guard… five aggregates, five senses | give… jewels, iron, copper, cows… your own flesh | 軍荼利明王 gundari-myo-o |
commentary
- the axis of some cardinal directions is altered in certain practices, this is to be expected; attribution aside, the concepts pointing to paramattha dhamma are what are important.
dyes2
- blue; lapiz lazuli, azurite
azurite unstable in open air, weathering > malachite
2 Cu3(CO3)2(OH)2 + H2O → 3 Cu2(CO3)(OH)2 + CO2 - green; malachite
source of copper - yellow; ochre
ferric oxide; clay earth pigment - red; cinnabar
source of mercury; earthy forms exist - white; calcium
chalk; mined chalk bricks etc.
1 form is a collapsed category representing form, sound, smell, taste, touch; [dendritic snapoff distribution].
2 from “A Survey of Tibetan Pigments”, David & Janice Jackson, Seattle, 1976