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ID: 901002287
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002287
Record Type: Character/Person

Cakrasaṃvara (Buddhist deity)

Note: Sanskrit term for a meditational deity particularly important to the Karma Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

Names:
Cakrasaṃvara (Buddhist deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
चक्रसंवर तन्त्र (Buddhist deity) (Sanskrit-P,D,N)
འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག (Buddhist deity) (Tibetan-P,D)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Buddhist iconography> (P)
........<Buddhist characters> (P)
............Cakrasaṃvara (Buddhist deity) (I)
Other Relationships:
role/characteristic is .... deity
.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
culture/religion is .... Buddhist
.....(religions (belief systems, cultures), religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Cakrasaṃvara (Buddhist deity)
................Sahai, Minor Hindu and Buddhist Deities (1975)
................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh 85018729
चक्रसंवर तन्त्र (Buddhist deity)
................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cakrasa%E1%B9%83vara_Tantra
འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག (Buddhist deity)
................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cakrasa%E1%B9%83vara_Tantra
Iconography Record Sources:
................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cakrasa%E1%B9%83vara_Tantra#/media/File:Chakrasamvara_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg

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