"The Jewel Fire" (rin-chen-me, Ratnagni) is seated in the west in the heavenly field 'endowed with luminosity'. He is red and holds a precious jewel and a ring of fire. "Jewel" refers to his primordial awareness which fulfils his purpose without discursive thought; it also refers to his excellence from which arises meditative absorption and total completeness (phun-sum-tsogs-pa, sampanna) which is beyond worldly actions; and "Fire" refers to his function of benefiting sentient beings with his primordial awareness and great energy which burns away their emotional afflictions.
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