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[[Image:6munis.jpg|thumb|250px|The Six Munis © 2004 Shechen Archives]] | [[Image:6munis.jpg|thumb|250px|The Six Munis © 2004 Shechen Archives]] | ||
| − | The '''[[Six Munis]]''' (Skt.; Tib. ''[[Tubpa Druk]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཐུབ་པ་དྲུག་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[thub pa drug]]'') are the [[supreme nirmanakaya | + | The '''[[Six Munis]]''' (Skt.; Tib. ''[[Tubpa Druk]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཐུབ་པ་དྲུག་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[thub pa drug]]'') are the [[supreme nirmanakaya buddha]]s for each of the [[six classes of beings]]. They are: |
| − | # [[Indra Kaushika]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[དབང་པོ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་]]}}, ''[[Wangpo Gyajin]]''; Wyl. ''[[dbang po brgya byin]]'') for the [[gods|god]] [[realms]] | + | |
| − | # [[Vemachitra]] (Skt. ''[[Vemacitra]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཐགས་བཟང་རིས་]]}}, ''[[Taksangri]]''; Wyl. ''[[thags bzang ris]]'') for the [[demi-gods]] or [[asura realm]]s | + | # [[Indra Kaushika]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[དབང་པོ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་]]}}, ''[[Wangpo Gyajin]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[dbang po brgya byin]]'') for the [[gods|god]] [[realms]] |
| − | # [[Shakyamuni]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཤཱཀྱ་ཐབ་པ་]]}}, Wyl. ''[[shAkya thub pa]]'') for the [[human beings|human]] [[realm]] | + | # [[Vemachitra]] (Skt. ''[[Vemacitra]]''; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཐགས་བཟང་རིས་]]}}, ''[[Taksangri]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[thags bzang ris]]'') for the [[demi-gods]] or [[asura realm]]s |
| − | # [[Shravasingha]] or [[Dhruvasiṃha]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སེང་གེ་རབ་བརྟན་]]}}, ''[[Sengé Rabten]]''; Wyl. ''[[seng ge rab brtan]]'') for the [[animal realm]] | + | |
| − | # [[Jvālamukhadeva]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཁ་འབར་དེ་བ་]]}}, ''[[Khabar Dewa]]''; Wyl. ''[[kha ‘bar de ba]]'') for the [[preta realm]]s | + | # [[Shakyamuni]] (Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཤཱཀྱ་ཐབ་པ་]]}}, [[Wyl.]] ''[[shAkya thub pa]]'') for the [[human beings|human]] [[realm]] |
| − | # [[Dharmarāja]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་]]}}, ''[[Chökyi Gyalpo]]''; Wyl. ''[[chos kyi rgyal po]]'') for the [[hells|hell realms]]<noinclude> | + | # [[Shravasingha]] or [[Dhruvasiṃha]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[སེང་གེ་རབ་བརྟན་]]}}, ''[[Sengé Rabten]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[seng ge rab brtan]]'') for the [[animal realm]] |
| + | # [[Jvālamukhadeva]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཁ་འབར་དེ་བ་]]}}, ''[[Khabar Dewa]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[kha ‘bar de ba]]'') for the [[preta realm]]s | ||
| + | # [[Dharmarāja]] (Skt.; Tib. {{BigTibetan|[[ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་]]}}, ''[[Chökyi Gyalpo]]''; [[Wyl.]] ''[[chos kyi rgyal po]]'') for the [[hells|hell realms]]<noinclude> | ||
==Alternative Translations== | ==Alternative Translations== | ||
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==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
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*[[Dudjom Rinpoche]], ''[[The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Its Fundamentals and History]]'', trans. and ed. [[Gyurme Dorje]] (Boston: Wisdom, 1991), vol.1 page 129-130. | *[[Dudjom Rinpoche]], ''[[The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Its Fundamentals and History]]'', trans. and ed. [[Gyurme Dorje]] (Boston: Wisdom, 1991), vol.1 page 129-130. | ||
Latest revision as of 05:15, 24 October 2015
The Six Munis (Skt.; Tib. Tubpa Druk; Tib. ཐུབ་པ་དྲུག་, Wyl. thub pa drug) are the supreme nirmanakaya buddhas for each of the six classes of beings. They are:
- Indra Kaushika (Skt.; Tib. དབང་པོ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་, Wangpo Gyajin; Wyl. dbang po brgya byin) for the god realms
- Vemachitra (Skt. Vemacitra; Tib. ཐགས་བཟང་རིས་, Taksangri; Wyl. thags bzang ris) for the demi-gods or asura realms
- Shakyamuni (Tib. ཤཱཀྱ་ཐབ་པ་, Wyl. shAkya thub pa) for the human realm
- Shravasingha or Dhruvasiṃha (Skt.; Tib. སེང་གེ་རབ་བརྟན་, Sengé Rabten; Wyl. seng ge rab brtan) for the animal realm
- Jvālamukhadeva (Skt.; Tib. ཁ་འབར་དེ་བ་, Khabar Dewa; Wyl. kha ‘bar de ba) for the preta realms
- Dharmarāja (Skt.; Tib. ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་, Chökyi Gyalpo; Wyl. chos kyi rgyal po) for the hell realms
Alternative Translations
Further Reading
- Dudjom Rinpoche, The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Its Fundamentals and History, trans. and ed. Gyurme Dorje (Boston: Wisdom, 1991), vol.1 page 129-130.
