修行会

Memo Sorting Table

This is a “Glasserian Sorting Table” and is best viewed full-screen.

			大威德明王 daiitoku myo-o	protect restraint of chaste non-emission			mahamudra siddhi	執金剛 vajradhara
	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
pledge… vajra, bell, mudra, guru	east blue vajra	earth-touching	water	fire		amoghasiddi samayatara
		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
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
  malachite thermal decomposition
  Cu₂CO₃(OH)₂(s) → 2CuO(s) + CO₂(g) + H₂O(g) [where → is heat]
  smelting with carbon
  2CuO(s) + C(s) → 2Cu(s) + CO₂(g) [where → s heat]
• yellow; ochre
  ferric oxide; clay earth pigment
• red; cinnabar
  source of mercury; earthy forms exist
• white; calcium
  chalk; mined chalk bricks etc.

Notes

¹ form is a collapsed category representing form, sound, smell, taste, touch; [dendritic snapoff distribution].
² David & Janice Jackson (1976)

References

Jackson, D., & Jackson, J. (1976). A survey of Tibetan pigments. Kailash: A Journal of Himalayan Studies 4(3), 273–294.