Samaya
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samaya · the pledge · the sacred samaya
in the texts
Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa
The tantric pledge or commitment (samaya) binding the practitioner, presented as the one thing that must not be transgressed even as ordinary moral scruples are set aside.
and one should uphold the [other] pledges (samaya (tantric pledge/commitment)) as well.
There is no sin upon you — [only] the pledge (samaya (tantric pledge/commitment)) is hard to transgress.
also "agreed convention")), the rite of worshipping the deity, and seeing it as pure, one should without scruple enjoy what is enjoined by the mantra.
San Hyan Kamahayanikan
The sacred vow/commitment binding the initiate, central to the tantric ethical and ritual system of the text.
VAJRA-WATER OṂ AḤ HUṂ!
Be diligent in protecting the sacred *samaya*.
*This water is from hell should you transgress the samaya.