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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Rigden Namgyal in Tibetan is another name for Vijaya—one of the “Twenty-Five Kalkis” (Tibetan: rigs ldan) as well as the “Thirty-two kings of Shambhala”, according to the Tibetan oral recounting and written texts such as the Kalachakra Tantra (kālacakratantra), dealing with the Buddhist conception of the end of the world and time.—The Tibetan mythic land (the kingdom of Shambhala) is a parallel world invisible and inaccessible to common people which is closely related to the teaching about the Wheel of Time (dus 'khor). The seven Dharmarajas and twenty-five Kulikas [e.g., rigden namgyal] are the traditional rulers of Shambhala, passing on the reign from father to son.

Source: Wisdom Library: Tibetan Buddhist Teachers, Deities and other Spiritual beings

Rigden Namgyal refers to one of the Twenty-five Kulikas as well as one of the traditional Shambhala rulers.—His attributes are an elephant goad or iron hook (Sanskrit aṅkuśa; Tibetan: chagkyu [lcags kyu]) and a snare, noose or lasso (Sanskrit: pāśa; Tibetan: zhagpa [zhags pa]).

Rigden Namgyal is known in Tibetan (wylie) as rigs ldan rnam rgyal; and in Sanskrit as: Kulika Vijaya.

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

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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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Partial matches: Namgyal.

Full-text: Rigden Rinchenchag, Rigden shenyenzang, Chagkyu, lcags kyu, Dorje, Vajra, Pasha, Ankusha, Zhagpa, rdo rje, Namgyal, Drilbu, zhags pa, Ghanta, Vijaya, Twenty-five Lineage Holders, Thirty-two kings of shambhala.

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