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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: MUNI Arts: Kalachakra and the twenty-five Kulika kings of Shambhala

Drigug in Tibetan (wylie: gri gug) refers to the Sanskrit Kartrī (“knife”) which represents one of the attributes of Pārtiva or Rigden Sakyong—one of the Twenty-five Kulikas as well as one of the traditional Shambhala rulers.— His attributes are a curved knife or chopper (Sanskrit Kartrī, Kartari; Tibetan: drigug [gri gug]) and a skull or skull-cup (Sanskrit: Kapāla; Tibetan: thopa [thod pa], kapala [ka pa la], bandha [ban dha], dungchen [dung chen]).—Rigden Sakyong is known in Tibetan (wylie) as rigs ldan sa skyong; and in Sanskrit as: Kulika Pārthiva (or Mahīpāla).

Drigug or “knife” also represents one of the attributes of Maheśvara or Rigden Wangchug.

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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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Full-text: Rigden wangchug, Rigden sakyong, Kartari, ban dha, Kartri, Thopa, thod pa, dung chen, Bandha, Kapala, gri gug, ka pa la.

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