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Tibetan Normalised transliteration Translation Tibetan Normalised transliteration Translation
a ba dhu ti pa Skt. Avadhūtipa 1 dpa(’ bo) rdo rje Skt. Bhavavajra (b. 10 th century)
1 ཨ་བ་�་ཏི་པ་ དཔའོ་�ོ་�ེ
da ma ru pa Skt. Ḍamarupa 2 mnga’ ris gsal [ba’i] snying Selwe Nyingpo from Ngari (11 th century)
2 ཌ་མ་�་པ་ མངའ་རིས་གསལ་�ིང་ [po]
nag po pa Skt. Kāṇhapa
3 ནག་པོ་པ་ glu ma The offering goddess of melodious songs
A �་མ་
bir ba pa Skt. Virūpa
4 བིར་བ་པ་ 3 འཁོན་�ི་�་བ་ ’khon sgyi chu ba Kön Gyichuwa (b. 11 th century)
5 བདག་མེད་མ་ bdag med ma Skt. Dhūpa
4 ཆོས་�ེ་ chos rje [sa skya paṇḍita] The Dharma Lord Sakya Paṇḍita (1240–
rdo rje ’chang Skt. Vajradhara 1307)
6 �ོ་�ེ་འཆང་
5 chos rgyal [dmar ston] Martön Chögyal (b. 13 th century)
drung chos kyi rje pa His Holiness the Dharma Lord, aka Lama ཆོས་�ལ་
7 �ང་ཆོས་�ི་�ེ་པ་
Dampa Sonam Gyaltsen (1312–1375) 6 ཚ�གས་�ོམ་ tshogs sgom [kun dga’ dpal] Tsokgom Künga Pel (1210–1307)
Dom bhi ba Skt. Dombipāda
8 ཌོམ་བྷི་བ་ gar ma The offering goddess of dance
B གར་མ་
a la la bdzra Skt. Alalavajra
9 ཨ་ལ་ལ་བ�་ 7 ཉན་ཆེན་པ་ nyan chen pa [bsod nams Nyenchen Sonam Tempa (1222–1317)
10 ནགས་�ོས་པ་ nags khros pa The mahāsiddha Forest Dweller brtan pa]
8 �ག་�ག་པ་ brag phug pa [bsod nams Sonam Pel from Drakpuk (1277–1350)
11 འགར་བྷ་ ་་་ ’gar bha [ri pa] Skt. Gharbaripa dpal]
(…) mas pa unidentified 9 ཞང་ ་་་ གོན་མཆོག་ ་་་ zhang [dk]on mchog [dpal] Könchok Pel from Zhang (1240–1307)?
12 ་་་ མས་པ་
mi thub zla ba Skt. Durjayacandra 10 �གས་�ལ་ grags [pa] rgyal [mtshan] Drakpa Gyaltsen (1147–1216)
13 མི་�བ་�་བ་
[sh]ad ma The offering goddess of laughter
C གཞད་མ་
bsod [nams] rtse [mo] Sonam Tsemo (1142–1182)
11 བསོད་�ེ
sa chen [kun dga’ snying po] Sachen Künga Nyingpo (1092–1158)
12 ས་ཆེན་
zhang [ston chos ’bar] dgon Zhangtön Chöbar Gönpawa (1053–1135)
13 ཞང་དགོན་པ་བ་
pa ba
se ston [kun rig] Setön Kunrik (1029–1116)
14 སེ་�ོན་
D �ེག་མོ་ sgeg mo [ma] The offering goddess of charm
15 འ�ོག་མི་ ’brog mi Drokmi Lotsawa (992–1043/72)
16 ག་ཡ་དྷ་ར་པ་ ga ya dha ra pa Skt. Kāyastha Gayādhara (c.11 th century)
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Tibetan Tibetan transliteration Translation
1 �ིང་�་མ་ gling bu ma The Flute goddess
pi wang ma The Lute goddess
2 པི་ཝང་མ་
mu kun rda ma The Mukunda drum goddess
3 མ་�ན་�་མ
rdza rnga ma The Clay drum goddess
4 �་�་མ་
gri gug ma
5 �ི་�ག་མ་ The [wrathful] Chopper goddess
gur [gyi] mgon [po] Skt. Pañjaranatha Mahākāla
6 �ར་མགོན་
’byung po ’dul byed The tamer of spirits
7 འ�ང་པོ་འ�ལ་�ེད་
’dod pa[’] dbang phyug Skt. Kāmadeva, the Lord of desire
8 འདོད་པས་དབང་�ག
Translated by Yannick Laurent
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