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Udiana (also: Uḍḍiyāna, Uḍḍāyāna, Udyāna or '
Oḍḍiyāna', Sanskrit: ओड्डियान, उड्डियान, उड्डायान, उद्यान; Tibetan: ཨུ་རྒྱན་, Wylie: u rgyan, Chinese: 烏萇;...
- Lotus"), also
known as Guru
Rinpoche (Precious Guru) and the
Lotus from
Oḍḍiyāna, was a
tantric Buddhist Vajra master from
medieval India who
taught Vajrayana...
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Tantra literature, the
Oddiyana Peetha (Devnagari:ओड़्याण पीठ) is
located in
eastern India near the
Vaitarani River (an
Oddiyana is an
ornament worn by...
- and
connects him to
Oddiyana. Thus, the
Chinese evidence connects king Sivi/Sivika and the Sivi
people or
country with the
Oddiyana/Swat
territory between...
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Shahis are
believed to
belong to the Uḍi/Oḍi tribe,
namely the
people of
Oddiyana, present-day Swat. The
Shahis built an
extensive array of
temples and other...
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began to flourish. Padmasambhava, The
Lotus Born, was a sage guru from
Oḍḍiyāna who is said to have
transmitted Vajrayana Buddhism to
Bhutan and Tibet...
- most
famous legends is that of king
Indrabhuti (also
known as King Ja) of
Oddiyana (a
figure related to Vajrapani, in some
cases said to be an
emanation of...
-
amalgamation of the
beliefs linked to Bhīmā or Nīlā in the
geographical region of
Oḍḍiyāna which has
experienced Buddhist and
possibly Taoist influence. The syncretism...
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Sattagydia (Bannu basin),
Gandhara (Kabul, Peshawar, and Taxila), and
Oddiyana (Swat Valley).
Paruparaesanna is
mentioned in the
Akkadian language and...
- to be
descendants of the aboriginals.
Majority of
rituals are
based on
Oddiyana Tantras which are the
refined versions of
Mahayana Tantras as well as Shabari...
