Salgye you Dalma

Salgye you Dalma - (Tibetan: The acts beyond the conceptual thinking, too: gsal-byed-GDOS bral-ma) is a from the Mother Tantra of Tibetan Bon originating Dakini and, machete, skull cup and Caucasians Kathvanga shown cautious. She is of great importance as the guardian of sleep during the exercises for so-called sleep and dream yoga .

Dakini ( Sanskrit "sky dancer") are tantric spirit beings of ancient India who, according to mythology, bring the souls of the dead to heaven. These beings continue to exist as Buddhist figures in Tibetan Buddhism .

According to the " Great Mother Tantra " (Ma-Gyud), Salgye Du Dalma is the Dakini, which is invoked as protection for conscious sleep and lucid dreaming . She is called to practice dream yoga . "She, which illuminates beyond the conceptual faculty", so one of her further names, is represented as a glowing drop of light - known as "tingle" ( Sanskrit bindu). This Dakini can always be reached because it resides in the heart, sitting on a white moon disk, which leans against a golden sun disk, which in turn rests on four blue lotus blossoms .

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Salgye du Dalma is white, has a face and two hands. She wears jewelry with a skull crown , holds a Triguk knife away from her body in her right hand and a skull bowl in her left. A tantric staff leans in the crook of her arm. Your right leg is bent in a joyful dance. It is adorned with a waving scarf.