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mtshan ma'i lha/
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1. Jeffrey Hopkins Dictionary

Hopkins' Translations: sign deity
Sanskrit: nimitta-deva

Comment: This is the sixth of six stages in deity yoga meditation in the Concentration Concentration Tantra (bsam gtan phyi ma, dhyānottara), an Action Tantra: ultimate deity or emptiness deity or suchness deity (don dam pa'i lha, stong pa nyid kyi lha, de kho na nyid kyi lha); sound deity (sgra'i lha); letter deity (yi ge'i lha); form deity (gzugs kyi lha); seal deity (phyag rgya'i lha); sign deity (mtshan ma'i lha).

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2. Rangjung Yeshe Dictionary

deities of attributes. Their identities are the Three Roots while their forms are peaceful and wrathful, sambhogakaya and nirmanakaya, chief figure and retinues, in a diversity that is inconceivable. [detailed expl., Light of Wisdom, Vol. 2, page 64, 158]

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3. Ives Waldo Dictionary

deith of characteristics [rang lus la sngags kyi byin gyis brlabs pas spyod lam kun tu lha'i mtshan ma'am gzugs snang dang mi 'bral bar bsgom pa [bya rgyud kyi lha drug gi nang gses shig ...

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deity of signs/ characteristics

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4. Jim Valby Dictionary

sign deity, deity of symbolic attributes, SA kri ya lha drug, deity of the symbolic attributes which refers to remembering the form of the visualized deity in all circumstances so practitioner perceives pure vision

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