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# ཤས་པས་ཐམས་ཅད་མཐར་ཕྱན་པར་གྲབ་པའ་མཆད་རྟན་ཞས་བྱ་བའ་གཟངས notes.55

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55. The Tib. has the feminine term rdo rje dbyings ma, which is understood here to be feminine because it construes syntactically with the feminine term mudrā (“gesture”). This reading appears to be confirmed by the use of vajradhātu in the following mantra. Less likely, though not implausible, is that the Tib. term is equivalent to rdo rje dbying phyug ma, Vajradhātvīśvarī, a female Buddhist deity.

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