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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Brill: Śaivism and the Tantric Traditions (tantric Buddhism)

Nirgranthi (निर्ग्रन्थि) refers to an “absence of knots”, according to the Bhūśalyasūtrapātananimittavidhi section of Jagaddarpaṇa’s Ācāryakriyāsamuccaya, a text within Tantric Buddhism dealing with construction manual for monasteries etc.—Accordingly, “The excellent master [= officiant] in steady meditation, gazing upon the centre of the tip of his nose, should cast the cord on the surface of the site which has been levelled following the rules exactly. [The cord,] into which [the five threads of the five colours] are twined, has as its nature the five wisdoms and is purified. [It] does not have a knot (nirgranthi), and is placed in the centre [of the site before casting]”.

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Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.

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Sanskrit dictionary

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Edgerton Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit Dictionary

Nirgranthi (निर्ग्रन्थि).—(°-), free from knots, in °thi-śira (n. sg. m. °raḥ), one of the anuvyañjana, having veins (Tibetan rtsa) free from knots: Mahāvyutpatti 276. The corresp. list Mahāvastu ii.43.9 has in mss. vinigrantha-śirā, which Senart em. to nir- granthi-. App. not in the Pali (Burnouf, Lotus, App. VIII, 2); in Lalitavistara seems perhaps replaced by ghana- saṃdhi(?).

Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

1) Nirgranthi (निर्ग्रन्थि):—[=nir-granthi] [from nir-grantha > nir > niḥ] mfn. free from knots, knotless, [cf. Lexicographers, esp. such as amarasiṃha, halāyudha, hemacandra, etc.]

2) [v.s. ...] without blemish, perfect (thi-ramaṇīyatā, [Caṇḍak.])

Source: DDSA: Paia-sadda-mahannavo; a comprehensive Prakrit Hindi dictionary (S)

Nirgranthī (निर्ग्रन्थी) in the Sanskrit language is related to the Prakrit word: Ṇiggaṃthī.

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Nirgranthi in German

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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Partial matches: Granthi, Nir, Nish.

Starts with: Nirgranthika, Nirgranthiputra, Nirgranthishira, Nirgranthisirata.

Full-text: Nigganthi, Pancanirgranthisutra, Nirgranthisirata, Vinigrantha, Nirgantha, Ghanasamdhi, Sadhvini, Anuvyanjana.

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