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| − | The | + | The [[five female buddhas]] of the [[five families]], also known as the [[five mothers]] (Wyl. ''[[yum lnga]]'') are: |
| − | #[[Dhatvishvari]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[དབྱིངས་ཕྱུག་མ་]]}}, ''[[Ying Chukma]]'') also known as [[Vajra]] | + | #[[Dhatvishvari]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[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. {{BigTibetan|[[སངས་རྒྱས་སྤྱན་]]}}, ''[[Sangyé chenma]]'') the [[consort]] of [[Akshobhya]], who represents the [[purity]] of the [[element | + | #[[Buddhalochana]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སངས་རྒྱས་སྤྱན་]]}}, ''[[Sangyé chenma]]'') the [[consort]] of [[Akshobhya]], who represents the [[purity]] of the [[element earth]] |
| − | #[[Mamaki]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མ་མ་ཀི་]]}}, ''[[Mamaki]]'') the [[consort]] of [[Ratnasambhava]], who represents the [[purity]] of the [[element] | + | #[[Mamaki]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མ་མ་ཀི་]]}}, ''[[Mamaki]]'') the [[consort]] of [[Ratnasambhava]], who represents the [[purity]] of the [[element] water]] |
| − | #[[Pandaravasini]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གོས་དཀར་མོ་]]}}, ''[[Gökarmo]]'') the [[consort]] of [[Amitabha]], who represents the [[purity]] of the [[element | + | #[[Pandaravasini]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གོས་དཀར་མོ་]]}}, ''[[Gökarmo]]'') the [[consort]] of [[Amitabha]], who represents the [[purity]] of the [[element fire]] |
| − | #[[Samayatara]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[དམ་ཚིག་སྒྲོལ་མ་]]}}, ''[[Damtsik Drolma]]'') also known as [[Green Tara]], the [[consort]] of [[Amoghasiddhi]], who represents the [[purity]] of the [[element | + | #[[Samayatara]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[དམ་ཚིག་སྒྲོལ་མ་]]}}, ''[[Damtsik Drolma]]'') also known as [[Green Tara]], the [[consort]] of [[Amoghasiddhi]], who represents the [[purity]] of the [[element wind]] |
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The five female buddhas of the five families, also known as the five mothers (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
- Buddhalochana (Skt.; Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་སྤྱན་, Sangyé chenma) 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]]
- Pandaravasini (Skt.; Tib. གོས་དཀར་མོ་, Gökarmo) 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
