Dangma

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Dangma (Tib.: dwangs-ma or dwans-ma) is a rare Tibetan word. The Tibetan-English Dictionary by H.A. Jäschke defines it as "a soul, when purified from every sin".[1]

H. P. Blavatsky defined it as follows:

Dangma means a purified soul, one who has become a Jivanmukta, the highest adept, or rather a Mahatma so-called. His “opened eye” is the inner spiritual eye of the seer, and the faculty which manifests through it is not clairvoyance as ordinarily understood, i.e., the power of seeing at a distance, but rather the faculty of spiritual intuition, through which direct and certain knowledge is obtainable. This faculty is intimately connected with the “third eye,” which mythological tradition ascribes to certain races of men.[2]

Notes

  1. Technical Terms in Stanza I] by David Reigle, 5]
  2. Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine vol. I, (Wheaton, IL: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993), 46, fn.

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