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− | '''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:- | + | '''[[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:- |
#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]]'') | ||
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#[[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> * 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 - | + | 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]] |
#[[Ting gi Shyal Zangma]] – riding a wild ass | #[[Ting gi Shyal Zangma]] – riding a wild ass | ||
#[[Chöpen Drin Zangma]] – riding a stag | #[[Chöpen Drin Zangma]] – riding a stag | ||
− | #[[Miyo Lang Zangma]] – riding a tiger | + | #[[Miyo Lang Zangma]] – riding a [[tiger]] |
− | #[[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 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 silver ladle of milk |
Revision as of 04:53, 14 March 2014
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.