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The '''five female buddhas''' of the [[five families]], also known as the '''five mothers''' (Tib. ཡུམ་ལྔ་, [[Wyl.]] ''yum lnga'') are:
The '''five female buddhas''' of the [[five families]], also known as the '''five mothers''' (Tib. ཡུམ་ལྔ་, [[Wyl.]] ''yum lnga'') are:
#[[Dhatvishvari]] (Skt.; Tib. [[དབྱིངས་ཕྱུག་མ་]], ''Ying Chukma'') also known as Vajra Datvishvari or White Tara, the consort of [[Vairochana]], who represents the purity of the element '''space'''
#[[Dhatvishvari]] (Skt.; Tib. [[དབྱིངས་ཕྱུག་མ་]], ''Ying Chukma'') also known as Vajra Datvishvari or White Tara, the consort of [[Vairochana]], who represents the purity of the element '''space'''
#[[Buddhalochana]] (Skt.; Tib. [[སངས་རྒྱས་སྤྱན་]], ''Sangyé chenma'') the consort of [[Akshobhya]], who represents the purity of the element '''earth'''
#[[Buddhalochana]] (Skt.; Tib. [[སངས་རྒྱས་སྤྱན་]], ''Sangyé chenma'') the consort of [[Akshobhya]], who represents the purity of the element '''earth'''
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Revision as of 03:06, 10 February 2019

The five female buddhas of the five families, also known as the five mothers (Tib. ཡུམ་ལྔ་, Wyl. yum lnga) are:

  1. Dhatvishvari (Skt.; Tib. དབྱིངས་ཕྱུག་མ་, Ying Chukma) also known as Vajra Datvishvari or White Tara, the consort of Vairochana, who represents the purity of the element space
  2. Buddhalochana (Skt.; Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་སྤྱན་, Sangyé chenma) the consort of Akshobhya, who represents the purity of the element earth
  3. Mamaki (Skt.; Tib. མ་མ་ཀི་, Mamaki) the consort of Ratnasambhava, who represents the purity of the element water
  4. Pandaravasini (Skt.; Tib. གོས་དཀར་མོ་, Gökarmo) the consort of Amitabha, who represents the purity of the element fire
  5. Samayatara (Skt.; Tib. དམ་ཚིག་སྒྲོལ་མ་, Damtsik Drolma) also known as Green Tara, the consort of Amoghasiddhi, who represents the purity of the element wind