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(2.1.2.2) Tantras of the Heruka Family

This section contains the Mother Tantra literature associated with the Heruka family, which represents five major tantric systems:

  1. Cakrasaṃvara (བདེ་མཆོག་, bde mchog, cakrasaṃvara)
  2. Hevajra (ཀྱེ་རྡོ་རྗེ་, kye rdo rje, hevajra)
  3. Buddha Skullcup (སངས་རྒྱས་ཐོད་པ་, sangs rgyas thod pa, buddhakapāla)
  4. Great Illusion (མ་ཧཱ་མཱ་ཡཱ་, ma hA mA yA, mahāmāyā)
  5. Ārali (ཨཱ་ར་ལི་, A ra li, ārali)