Matarah

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Matarah, a.k.a Mamo Bötong (T. ma mo rbod gtong མ་མོ་རྦོད་གཏོང་; Skt. *Mātry-āvahana-visarjana; "Matari the Liberating Sorcery"). One of the three worldly deities among the Eight Great Sadhana Teachings.

Mamo Bötong is a deity who is in-between (literally ‘on the border’) the wisdom and the worldly deities and neither male nor female. [source: Rigpa wiki]

Further reading

  • Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé, The Treasury of Knowledge: Systems of Buddhist Tantra (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005)

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