Alternative spellings of this word include Adhimukticharya.

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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: archive.org: The Indian Buddhist Iconography

Adhimukticaryā (अधिमुक्तिचर्या) refers to one of twelve Bhūmi Goddesses, as commonly depicted in Buddhist Iconography, and mentioned in the 11th-century Niṣpannayogāvalī of Mahāpaṇḍita Abhayākara.—Her Colour is red; her Symbol is a red lotus; she has two arms.

Adhimukticaryā is described in the Niṣpannayogāvalī (dharmadhātuvāgīśvara-maṇḍala) as follows:—

“Adhimukticaryā-Bhūmi is of the colour of a red lotus, and holds in her left hand the red lotus”.

[These twelve bhūmis [viz., Adhimukticaryā] are two-armed and hold in the right hand the vajra and in the left their own weapons or signs.]

Source: MDPI Books: The Ocean of Heroes

Adhimukticaryā (अधिमुक्तिचर्या) refers to the “practice of resolution”, according to the 10th-century Ḍākārṇava-tantra: one of the last Tibetan Tantric scriptures belonging to the Buddhist Saṃvara tradition consisting of 51 chapters.—Accordingly: [while explaining the body circle (kāyacakra)]: “[Every Yoginī] has the nature of wisdom and means, dwells in the upapīlava (“near the village border”) [holy site], and is [of] the Level of the Practice of Resolution (adhimukticaryā-bhūmi) [bhūmir adhimukticaryā ca]. These are the twelve circle [deities]. Square [in shape], this circle has the name of the Emanation Body, [is decorated with] five lines [representing the Fivefold Gnosis] starting with the Mirror-like, and is marked with every [kind of good] characteristic. Sixteen [offerings] are performed by goddesses—[this is] the offering to the four layers [...]”.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Adhimukticaryā (अधिमुक्तिचर्या).—course of conduct determined by (religious) zeal, Asaṅga (Mahāyāna-sūtrālaṃkāra) i.13 (Lévi note 1, conduite par croyance, see s.v. adhimukti): °bhūmi, stage of zealous conduct, Mahāvyutpatti 896—901 (five such listed); the first of a list of six bodhisattva-bhūmis Bodhisattvabhūmi 84.23, or the second of seven, 367.4 (see s.v. bhūmi 4, end).

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Carya, Adhimukti.

Starts with: Adhimukticaryabhumi.

Full-text: Alokavriddhi, Alokalabha, Adhimukticaryabhumi, Anantaryasamadhi, Nirvedhabhagiya, Dvadashabhumi, Vihara, Bhumi.

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