Difference between revisions of "Eight classes of gods and demons"
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
[[File:646 cvt=jpeg.jpg|thumb|250px|]] | [[File:646 cvt=jpeg.jpg|thumb|250px|]] | ||
| − | |||
| − | * dü (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[བདུད་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[bdud]]''; Skt. ''[[māra]]'')—see [[four maras]] | + | |
| − | * [[mamo]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མ་མོ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[ma mo]]''; Skt. ''[[mātrika]]'') | + | |
| − | * [[naga]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཀླུ་]]}}, Skt. ''[[nāga]]''; Tib. ''[[lu]]''; Wyl. ''[[klu]]'') | + | |
| − | * [[ging]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གིང་]]}}, Wyl. [[ging]]) | + | |
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | |||
| + | '''[[Eight classes of gods and demons]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ལྷ་འདྲེ་སྡེ་བརྒྱད་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[lha 'dre sde brgyad]]'') — a {{Wiki|classification}} of [[worldly]] [[spirits]]. There are many different classifications; one of them is: | ||
| + | |||
| + | * [[dü]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[བདུད་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[bdud]]''; Skt. ''[[māra]]'')—see [[four maras]] | ||
| + | * [[mamo]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མ་མོ་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[ma mo]]''; Skt. ''[[mātrika]]'') | ||
| + | * [[naga]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཀླུ་]]}}, Skt. ''[[nāga]]''; Tib. ''[[lu]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[klu]]'') | ||
| + | * [[ging]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གིང་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] [[ging]]) | ||
* [[rahula]] (Skt. ''[[rāhula]]'') | * [[rahula]] (Skt. ''[[rāhula]]'') | ||
| − | * [[tsen]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[བཙན་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[btsan]]'') | + | * [[tsen]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[བཙན་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[btsan]]'') |
| − | * [[rakshasa]] (Skt. ''[[rākṣasa]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྲིན་པོ་]]}}, ''[[sinpo]]''; Wyl. ''[[srin po]]'') | + | * [[rakshasa]] (Skt. ''[[rākṣasa]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སྲིན་པོ་]]}}, ''[[sinpo]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[srin po]]'') |
| − | * [[yaksha]] (Skt. ''[[yakṣa]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གནོད་སྦྱིན་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gnod sbyin]]'') | + | * [[yaksha]] (Skt. ''[[yakṣa]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གནོད་སྦྱིན་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[gnod sbyin]]'') |
On an inner level, they correspond to the [[eight consciousnesses]]. | On an inner level, they correspond to the [[eight consciousnesses]]. | ||
==Alternative Classifications== | ==Alternative Classifications== | ||
| − | Alternative classifications include gods and demons such as: | + | Alternative classifications include [[gods]] and {{Wiki|demons}} such as: |
| − | *gods (Skt. ''[[deva]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ལྷ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[lha]]'') | + | *[[gods]] (Skt. ''[[deva]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ལྷ་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[lha]]'') |
| − | *[[yama]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གཤིན་རྗེ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[gshin rje]]'') | + | *[[yama]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གཤིན་རྗེ་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[gshin rje]]'') |
| − | *[[gyalpo]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྒྱལ་པོ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[rgyal po]]'') | + | *[[gyalpo]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[རྒྱལ་པོ་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[rgyal po]]'') |
| − | *[[sadak]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ས་བདག་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[sa bdag]]'') | + | *[[sadak]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ས་བདག་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[sa bdag]]'') |
| − | *[[miamchi]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མིའམ་ཅི་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[mi'm ci]]'') | + | *[[miamchi]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མིའམ་ཅི་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[mi'm ci]]'') |
| − | *[[teurang]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཐེའུ་རང་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[the'u rang]]'') | + | *[[teurang]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཐེའུ་རང་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[the'u rang]]'') |
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
Latest revision as of 05:01, 2 April 2024
Eight classes of gods and demons (Tib. ལྷ་འདྲེ་སྡེ་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. lha 'dre sde brgyad) — a classification of worldly spirits. There are many different classifications; one of them is:
- dü (Tib. བདུད་, Wyl. bdud; Skt. māra)—see four maras
- mamo (Tib. མ་མོ་, Wyl. ma mo; Skt. mātrika)
- naga (Tib. ཀླུ་, Skt. nāga; Tib. lu; Wyl. klu)
- ging (Tib. གིང་, Wyl. ging)
- rahula (Skt. rāhula)
- tsen (Tib. བཙན་, Wyl. btsan)
- rakshasa (Skt. rākṣasa; Tib. སྲིན་པོ་, sinpo; Wyl. srin po)
- yaksha (Skt. yakṣa; Tib. གནོད་སྦྱིན་, Wyl. gnod sbyin)
On an inner level, they correspond to the eight consciousnesses.
Alternative Classifications
Alternative classifications include gods and demons such as:
- gods (Skt. deva; Tib. ལྷ་, Wyl. lha)
- yama (Skt.; Tib. གཤིན་རྗེ་, Wyl. gshin rje)
- gyalpo (Tib. རྒྱལ་པོ་, Wyl. rgyal po)
- sadak (Tib. ས་བདག་, Wyl. sa bdag)
- miamchi (Tib. མིའམ་ཅི་, Wyl. mi'm ci)
- teurang (Tib. ཐེའུ་རང་, Wyl. the'u rang)
Further Reading
- Revue d'Études Tibétaines, Number 2, April 2003 - Numéro spécial Lha srin sde brgyad
Source
RigpaWiki:Eight classes of gods and demons
Eight classes of gods and demons (lha srin sde brgyad). There are various descriptions but in the sutras the most general is:
All of them were able to receive and practice the teachings of the Buddha. These eight classes can also refer to various types of mundane spirits who can cause either help or harm, but remain invisible to normal human beings:
On a subtle level, they are regarded as the impure manifestation of the eight types of consciousness.
