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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. ''Dhātvīśvarī''; Tib. [[དབྱིངས་ཕྱུག་མ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''dbyings phyug ma'') – 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་]]མ་, ''Sangyé chenma'') the consort of [[Akshobhya]], who represents the purity of the element '''earth'''
#[[Buddhalochana]] (Skt. ''Buddhalocanā''; Tib. [[སངས་རྒྱས་སྤྱན་]]མ་, [[Wyl.]] ''sangs rgyas spyan ma'') – the consort of [[Akshobhya]], who represents the purity of the element '''earth'''
#[[Mamaki]] (Skt.; Tib. [[མ་མ་ཀི་]], ''Mamaki'') the consort of [[Ratnasambhava]], who represents the purity of the element '''water'''
#[[Mamaki]] (Skt. ''Māmakī''; Tib. [[མ་མ་ཀི་]], [[Wyl.]] ''ma ma ki'') – the consort of [[Ratnasambhava]], who represents the purity of the element '''water'''
#[[Pandaravasini]] (Skt.; Tib. [[གོས་དཀར་མོ་]], ''Gökarmo'') the consort of [[Amitabha]], who represents the purity of the element '''fire'''
#[[Pandaravasini]] (Skt. ''Pāṇḍarāvasinī''; Tib. [[གོས་དཀར་མོ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''gos dkar mo'') – the consort of [[Amitabha]], who represents the purity of the element '''fire'''
#[[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'''<noinclude>
#[[Samayatara]] – (Skt. ''Samayatārā''; Tib. [[དམ་ཚིག་སྒྲོལ་མ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''dam tshig sgrol ma'') – also known as Green Tara, the consort of [[Amoghasiddhi]], who represents the purity of the element '''wind'''<noinclude>


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Latest revision as of 10:29, 13 February 2026

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

  1. Dhatvishvari (Skt. Dhātvīśvarī; Tib. དབྱིངས་ཕྱུག་མ་, Wyl. dbyings phyug ma) – also known as Vajra Datvishvari or White Tara, the consort of Vairochana, who represents the purity of the element space
  2. Buddhalochana (Skt. Buddhalocanā; Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་སྤྱན་མ་, Wyl. sangs rgyas spyan ma) – the consort of Akshobhya, who represents the purity of the element earth
  3. Mamaki (Skt. Māmakī; Tib. མ་མ་ཀི་, Wyl. ma ma ki) – the consort of Ratnasambhava, who represents the purity of the element water
  4. Pandaravasini (Skt. Pāṇḍarāvasinī; Tib. གོས་དཀར་མོ་, Wyl. gos dkar mo) – the consort of Amitabha, who represents the purity of the element fire
  5. Samayatara – (Skt. Samayatārā; Tib. དམ་ཚིག་སྒྲོལ་མ་, Wyl. dam tshig sgrol ma) – also known as Green Tara, the consort of Amoghasiddhi, who represents the purity of the element wind
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