The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1439 page)

(Skt., ‘The Great Event’). A composite work of the
Lokottara
(v
da) Buddhist school, dealing with previous existences (
j
taka
) of the
Buddha
. All the episodes of his life are designed to help those whom he meets at their own level; he himself is never other than transcendent.

 
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see
SARVASTIV
DA
.

 
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(Skt., ‘great’ + ‘knowledge’). Ten Hindu goddesses who represent the ten forms of transcendent knowledge and
tantric
power, through the worship of whom one can gain knowledge of
Brahman
, since they are all personifications of Brahman's
akti
. They are
K
li
/Lalit
;
T
r
(an emanation of K
li); So
a
(a girl of 16, the number of perfection, thus the perfection of the cosmic whole); Bhukane
vari (the material world);
Bhairavi
(the infinite variety of desires and the inevitability of death);
Chinnamast
/V
rar
tr