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Buddhas of the five families (Skt. jinakula; Tib. རྒྱལ་བ་རིགས་ལྔ་, Wyl. rgyal ba rigs lnga) — the five peaceful buddhas of the sambhogakaya:

  1. Vairochana Tib. རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད་, (buddha family)
  2. Akshobhya Tib. མི་བསྐྱོད་པ་, (vajra family)
  3. Ratnasambhava Tib. རིན་ཆེན་འབྱུང་གནས་, (ratna family)
  4. Amitabha Tib. འོད་དཔག་མེད་, (padma family)
  5. Amoghasiddhi Tib. དོན་ཡོད་གྲུབ་པ་, (karma family)

They can be in union with the five female buddhas.

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