术语“斗姆”的详细信息

英译术语:

doumu (the mother of stars of the Big Dipper in Taoism)

汉语语境:

斗姆，也作斗母，主要是指北斗之母。作为道教的女性神祇，其形象却是道教众神中少见的多头多臂形象。梳理和分析斗姆的相关经文，可以得出其多头多臂形象主要是在其被纳入到道教雷法中时，因与密教摩利支天相结合而借用了摩利支天的忿怒相所致。

英语语境:

Doumu, the Mother of the Dipper, is a Taoist female deity, but she has an unusual image among all of the Daoist female deities, for she often appears as an esoteric Budhisattva who has three heads and six or eight arms. Through the analysis of related scriptures of Doumu, it can be concluded that the esoteric image of Doumu derived from Marici, a goddess of light in Esoteric Buddhism, as Doumu was absorbed into the canons of Thunder Rites.