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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (tantric Buddhism)

Prabhāmaṇḍala (प्रभामण्डल) refers to a “brilliant halo” [?], according to the Nāmamantrārthāvalokinī by Vilāsavajra, which is a commentary on the Nāmasaṃgīti.—Accordingly, [while describing Mañjuśrī-jñānasattva]—“[Next] he should visualise himself as the fortunate one, the gnosis-being [Mañjuśrī], born from the syllable a situated in the middle of that [wisdom-] wheel [situated in the heart of the Ādibuddha]. He has six faces, is radiant like the autumn moon, with the best of sapphires in his beautiful hair, with a halo that has the brilliance (chāya-prabhāmaṇḍala) of the orb of the newly risen sun, with all the tathāgatas as [head-]ornaments, immersed in meditative concentration, seated on a variagated lotus throne, in tranquil mood, with a pair of books of the Prajñāpāramitā above blue lotuses held in his two hands”.

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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: DDSA: The practical Sanskrit-English dictionary

Prabhāmaṇḍala (प्रभामण्डल).—a circle or halo of light; स्फुरत्प्रभामण्डलया चकाशे (sphuratprabhāmaṇḍalayā cakāśe) Kumārasambhava 1.24;6.4; R.3.6;14.14.

Derivable forms: prabhāmaṇḍalam (प्रभामण्डलम्).

Prabhāmaṇḍala is a Sanskrit compound consisting of the terms prabhā and maṇḍala (मण्डल).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Shabda-Sagara Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Prabhāmaṇḍala (प्रभामण्डल).—n.

(-laṃ) A circle of light.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Prabhāmaṇḍala (प्रभामण्डल).—[neuter] circle or garland of light.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum

Prabhāmaṇḍala (प्रभामण्डल) as mentioned in Aufrecht’s Catalogus Catalogorum:—Śāstradipikāṭīkā by Yajñanārāyaṇa Dīkṣita.

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Prabhāmaṇḍala (प्रभामण्डल):—[=prabhā-maṇḍala] [from prabhā > pra-bhā] n. (also la-ka n., [Kathāsaritsāgara]) a circle or crown of rays, [ib.]

[Sanskrit to German]

Prabhamandala in German

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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.

Kannada-English dictionary

Source: Alar: Kannada-English corpus

Prabhāmaṃḍala (ಪ್ರಭಾಮಂಡಲ):—

1) [noun] a ring of light that seems to encircle the sun, moon or other luminous body, caused by the refraction of light through ice crystals in our atmosphere; halo.

2) [noun] a symbolic disk or ring of light shown around or above the head of a saint, etc., as in pictures; nimbus.

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Prabhāmaṃḍaḷa (ಪ್ರಭಾಮಂಡಳ):—[noun] = ಪ್ರಭಾಮಂಡಲ [prabhamamdala].

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Kannada is a Dravidian language (as opposed to the Indo-European language family) mainly spoken in the southwestern region of India.

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Partial matches: Prabha, Mandala, Prabhata.

Starts with: Prabhamandalaka, Prabhamandalashobhin.

Ends with: Sphuratprabhamandala.

Full-text: Prabhamandalaka, Bhamandala, Prabhamandalashobhin, Prabha-valaya, Prabhacakra, Sphuratprabhamandala, Mahaprabhamandalavyuhajnanamudra, Prabhamandal, Shirashcakra, Sri Yagneswara Dikshita, Nimbus, Yajnanarayana dikshita, Candrashekharamuti, Prabhavali, Skanda, Ekapada-Trimurti, Shastradipika.

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