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| − | '''[[Five Sisters of Long Life]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཚེ་རིང་མཆེད་ལྔ་]]}} , [[Wyl.]] ''[[tshe ring mched lnga]]'') are guardians who pledged to protect the teachings. They are:- | + | '''[[Five Sisters of Long Life]]''' (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཚེ་རིང་མཆེད་ལྔ་]]}} , [[Wyl.]] ''[[tshe ring mched lnga]]'') are guardians who pledged to {{Wiki|protect}} the teachings. They are:- |
| − | #Tashi [[Tseringma]], (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཚེ་རིང་མ་]]}} , Wyl. ''[[bkra shis tshe ring ma]]'') | + | #[[Tashi]] [[Tseringma]], (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཚེ་རིང་མ་]]}} , [[Wyl.]] ''[[bkra shis tshe ring ma]]'') |
| − | #[[Ting gi Shyal Zangma]], (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མཐིང་གི་ཞལ་བཟང་མ་]]}} , Wyl. ''[[mthing gi zhal bzang ma]]'') | + | #[[Ting gi Shyal Zangma]], (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མཐིང་གི་ཞལ་བཟང་མ་]]}} , [[Wyl.]] ''[[mthing gi zhal bzang ma]]'') |
| − | #[[Chöpen Drin Zangma]], (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཅོད་པན་མགྲིན་བཟང་མ་]]}} , Wyl. ''[[cod pan mgrin bzang ma]]'') | + | #[[Chöpen Drin Zangma]], (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཅོད་པན་མགྲིན་བཟང་མ་]]}} , [[Wyl.]] ''[[cod pan mgrin bzang ma]]'') |
| − | #[[Miyo Lang Zangma]], (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མི་གཡོ་གླང་བཟང་མ་]]}} , Wyl. ''[[mi g.yo glang bzang ma]]'') and | + | #[[Miyo Lang Zangma]], (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[མི་གཡོ་གླང་བཟང་མ་]]}} , [[Wyl.]] ''[[mi g.yo glang bzang ma]]'') and |
| − | #[[Talkar Dro Zangma]], (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གཏལ་དཀར་འགྲོ་བཟང་མ་]]}} , Wyl. ''[[gtal dkar ‘gro bzang ma]]''). | + | #[[Talkar Dro Zangma]], (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[གཏལ་དཀར་འགྲོ་བཟང་མ་]]}} , [[Wyl.]] ''[[gtal dkar ‘gro bzang ma]]''). |
| − | In some traditions they are depicted as riding on [[animals]]<ref> * [http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/tseringma/index.html The Five Long-life Sisters]. </ref> but in the [[Longchen Nyingtik]][[ terma]] tradition they are depicted in standing posture holding various accoutrements. <ref> * {{Nolinking|klong chen snying thig rtsa pod, Vol. 2, klong chen snying gi thig le las/ bka' srung sman btsun mched lnga'i phrin las dpag bsam yongs 'du - pp.749-755/756.}}</ref> | + | In some [[traditions]] they are depicted as riding on [[animals]]<ref> * [http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/tseringma/index.html The Five Long-life Sisters]. </ref> but in the [[Longchen Nyingtik]][[ terma]] [[tradition]] they are depicted in [[standing posture]] holding various accoutrements. <ref> * {{Nolinking|klong chen snying thig rtsa pod, Vol. 2, klong chen snying gi thig le las/ bka' srung sman btsun mched lnga'i phrin las dpag bsam yongs 'du - pp.749-755/756.}}</ref> |
#[[Tashi Tseringma]] – riding a [[snow lion]] | #[[Tashi Tseringma]] – riding a [[snow lion]] | ||
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#[[Talkar Dro Zangma]] - riding a [[dragon]] | #[[Talkar Dro Zangma]] - riding a [[dragon]] | ||
| − | ===[[Longchen Nyingtik]] [[terma]] tradition=== | + | ===[[Longchen Nyingtik]] [[terma]] [[tradition]]=== |
#[[Tashi Tseringma]] - holding an arrow and a dice | #[[Tashi Tseringma]] - holding an arrow and a dice | ||
| − | #[[Ting gi Shyal Zangma]] - holding a divination mirror | + | #[[Ting gi Shyal Zangma]] - holding a {{Wiki|divination}} [[mirror]] |
#[[Chöpen Drin Zangma]] - holding a [[treasure vase]] | #[[Chöpen Drin Zangma]] - holding a [[treasure vase]] | ||
| − | #[[Miyo Lang Zangma]] - holding a tray of wealth and riches | + | #[[Miyo Lang Zangma]] - holding a tray of [[wealth]] and riches |
| − | #[[Talkar Dro Zangma]] - holding a silver ladle of milk | + | #[[Talkar Dro Zangma]] - holding a {{Wiki|silver}} ladle of milk |
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Revision as of 17:11, 18 November 2015
Five Sisters of Long Life (Tib. ཚེ་རིང་མཆེད་ལྔ་ , Wyl. tshe ring mched lnga) are guardians who pledged to protect the teachings. They are:-
- Tashi Tseringma, (Tib. བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཚེ་རིང་མ་ , Wyl. bkra shis tshe ring ma)
- Ting gi Shyal Zangma, (Tib. མཐིང་གི་ཞལ་བཟང་མ་ , Wyl. mthing gi zhal bzang ma)
- Chöpen Drin Zangma, (Tib. ཅོད་པན་མགྲིན་བཟང་མ་ , Wyl. cod pan mgrin bzang ma)
- Miyo Lang Zangma, (Tib. མི་གཡོ་གླང་བཟང་མ་ , Wyl. mi g.yo glang bzang ma) and
- Talkar Dro Zangma, (Tib. གཏལ་དཀར་འགྲོ་བཟང་མ་ , Wyl. gtal dkar ‘gro bzang ma).
In some traditions they are depicted as riding on animals[1] but in the Longchen Nyingtikterma tradition they are depicted in standing posture holding various accoutrements. [2]
- Tashi Tseringma – riding a snow lion
- Ting gi Shyal Zangma – riding a wild ass
- Chöpen Drin Zangma – riding a stag
- Miyo Lang Zangma – riding a tiger
- Talkar Dro Zangma - riding a dragon
Longchen Nyingtik terma tradition
- Tashi Tseringma - holding an arrow and a dice
- Ting gi Shyal Zangma - holding a divination mirror
- Chöpen Drin Zangma - holding a treasure vase
- Miyo Lang Zangma - holding a tray of wealth and riches
- Talkar Dro Zangma - holding a silver ladle of milk
Footnotes
- ↑ * The Five Long-life Sisters.
- ↑ * klong chen snying thig rtsa pod, Vol. 2, klong chen snying gi thig le las/ bka' srung sman btsun mched lnga'i phrin las dpag bsam yongs 'du - pp.749-755/756.
External Links
- The Five Long-life Sisters
- Tseringma with her four sisters. Iconography from the Longchen Nyingtik cycle of terma teachings.
