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'''Mahakala''' | '''Mahakala''' (Skt. mahākāla; Tib. [[མགོན་པོ་]], ནག་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་, [[Wyl.]] ''nag po chen po'', but usually ''mgon po'') - a supermundane <ref>A supermundane dharma protector is an enlightened being while a mundane protector is a samsaric being.</ref> [[dharma protector]] who appears in a number of forms, such as Four-arm Mahakala, [[Six-arm Mahakala]], [[Bernakchen]], [[Maning Nakpo]] and [[Pañjaranatha]] (Gurgyi Gönpo). | ||
==External Links== | |||
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/mahakala/index.html Outline page at Himalayan Art] | |||
== Footnotes== | |||
[[Category:Buddhas and Deities]] | [[Category:Buddhas and Deities]] | ||
[[Category:Dharma Protectors]] | |||
Revision as of 19:38, 19 June 2018
Mahakala (Skt. mahākāla; Tib. མགོན་པོ་, ནག་པོ་ཆེན་པོ་, Wyl. nag po chen po, but usually mgon po) - a supermundane [1] dharma protector who appears in a number of forms, such as Four-arm Mahakala, Six-arm Mahakala, Bernakchen, Maning Nakpo and Pañjaranatha (Gurgyi Gönpo).
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- ↑ A supermundane dharma protector is an enlightened being while a mundane protector is a samsaric being.