Twenty-four places, Twenty-four sacred sites, Twenty-four sacred districts, Twenty-four power places: 3 definitions

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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Google Books: The Crystal Mirror of Philosophical Systems

The Twenty-four Power Places of Jambudvīpa are known in Tibetan as: 'dzam gling gnas mchog nyishu rtsa bzhi. They are as follows:

Jālandhara,
Uḍḍiyāna,
Paurṇagiri,
Kāmarūpa,
Mālava,
Sindhu,
Nagara,
Munmuni,
Kāruṇyapāṭaka,
Devīkoṭa,
Karmārapāṭaka,
Kulatā,
Arbuda,
Godāvarī,
Himādri,
Harikela,
Lampāka,
Kañci,
Sauraṣṭra,
Kaliṅga,
Kokaṇa,
Caritra,
Kośala,
Vindhyākumārapaurikā.

Source: 84000: Equal to the Sky (Śrīkhasamatantrarāja)

The Twenty-four Sacred Sites on the Indian subcontinent that are considered particularly powerful for the practices of the Yoginī Tantras. These map to twenty-four places on the human body in conjunction with the yogic practices of the perfection stage.—The twenty-four sacred sites are known in Sanskrit as: caturviṃśatipīṭha and in Tibetan as: gnas nyi shu rtsa bzhi.

Source: Rigpa Shedra: Wiki

The Twenty-four great sacred places (Tibetan: gnas chen nyer bzhi) according to the Hevajra Tantra are as follows.

Jālandhara,
Oḍḍiyāna,
Pūrṇagiri,
Kāmārūpa,
Mālava,
Sindhu,
Nagara,
Munmuṇi,
Kāruṇyapāṭaka,
Devīkoṭa,
Karmārapaṭaka,
Kulatā,
Arbuda,
Godāvarī,
Himādri,
Harikela,
Lampāka,
Kāñcīka,
Saurāṣṭra,
Kaliṅga,
Kokana,
Cāritra,
Kośala,
Kumārapura.

Other tantras have presented similar yet slightly different lists of these sacred places. The Chakrasamvara Tantra states:

Kulutā (Kulatā),
Maru,
Sindhu,
Nagara,
Suvarṇadvīpa,
Saurāṣṭra,
Gṛhadevatā,
Pretapurī (Pretādhivāsinī),
Himālaya (Himavat),
Kāñci,
Lampāka,
Kaliṅga,
Kośala,
Triśakuni,
Kāmarūpa,
Oḍra,
Mālava,
Devīkoṭa,
Rāmeśvara,
Godāvarī,
Arbuda,
Uḍḍiyāna (Oḍḍiyāna),
Jālandhara,
Pullīramalaya (Malaya).

In the Nyingma tradition, Jigme Lingpa's Yumka Dechen Gyalmo has incorporated this enumeration. Furthermore, Jigme Lingpa says that “as regards these places, they are entirely present internally, within our own body”.

The crown of the head is Jālandhara,
in between the eyebrows is Pullīramalaya,
the nape is Arbuda,
the urna (the hair at the center of the forehead) is Rāmeśvara,
the right ear is Oḍḍiyāna,
the left ear is Godāvarī,
the eyes are Devīkoṭa, and
the shoulders are Mālava.
the throat is Lampāka,
the underarms and kidneys are Kāmarūpa,
the two breasts are Oḍra,
the navel is Triśakuni,
the nose-tip is Kośala,
the palate is Kaliṅga,
the heart is both Kāñcī and Himālaya (Himavat)
the heart is both Kāñcī and Himālaya (Himavat)
the genitals are Pretapurī,
the anus is Gṛhadevatā,
the thumbs and the big toes are Maru,
the thighs are Saurāṣṭra,
the calves are Suvarṇadvīpa,
the sixteen other fingers and toes are Nagara,
the knees are Kulatā, and
the ankles are Sindhu.

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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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