Phoba, Phowa literal meaning

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Malcolm
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Re: Phoba, Phowa literal meaning

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Will wrote:Malcolm is a gem :bow:

Are the dictionary passages above online? There does not seem to be Devanagari, which is good, but the display is horrid. If I could look at the site directly, maybe things would clear up.

http://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.d ... index.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

It is Harvard Kyoto romanization which is horrid.
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Re: Phoba, Phowa literal meaning

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འཕོ་བ
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འཕོ་བ་
Tsepak Rigdzin
saṁkrānti/ Consciousness transference.

A type of exalted purification practice in which one's or other's consciousness is transfered to a pure land; one of the six yogas of Naropa (see ན་རོ་ཆོས་དྲུག་).

Hopkins 2015
to move; develop; progress; transmigrate

Rangjung Yeshe
ejection of consciousness A yogic practice in which consciousness leaves the body. One of the yogas of Naropa

འཕོ་བ་, འཕོས་པ་, འཕོ་བ་ intr. v.; the transference of consciousness; to transfer, shift, transit, transpose; transformation; changing, emanating, descent, ejection, dying, ejection of consciousness, transferring, to change place, shift. the transformation at death into a higher realm of existence. ft. of འཕོ་བ་; transference of consciousness; to transfer/ shift; to transmit; to enter [the heart]; to be transferred

Phowa. Ejection of consciousness to a buddhafield at the moment of death

phowa, transference of consciousness

རང་རྒྱུད་ལ་འཕོ་བ་ that they may receive in themselves

James Valby
90 minute period, change, transform, transfer, transmigration, change place, go, move oneself away, migrate, depart, shift, descent, ejection, alter, SA spo ba, meditation on transferring the consciousness, movement, cycle of breaths, force of the breath, flowing of the breath

Ives Waldo
1) transport/ transfer;

2) go;

3) death;

4) changing [emanating, descent, ejection, dying, ejection of consciousness, change place, shift the transformation at death into a higher realm of existence]

Richard Barron
transference of consciousness; to transfer/ shift; isc. shift in perspective/ paradigm shift

Hopkins others' English 2015
{C} pass on; transmigrates; pass away from; come along

Hopkins Tenses 2015 (Tibetan)
འཕོ། འཕོ། འཕོས། འཕོས།

Hopkins Sans­krit 2015 (Tibetan-Sanskrit)
{C} saṃkramati; {MSA} saṃkrānti

Yoga­chara­bhumi Glossary (Tibetan-Sanskrit)
saṃkrānti; parivarta. saṃcāra
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