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'''Five Sisters of Long Life''' (Tib. ཚེ་རིང་མ་མཆེད་ལྔ་ , Wyl. ''tshe ring mched lnga'') are guardians who pledged to protect the teachings. They are:-  
'''Five Sisters of Long Life''' (Tib. ཚེ་རིང་མཆེད་ལྔ་, ''tsering ché nga'', [[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''). 


Tashi [[Tseringma]], (Tib. བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཚེ་རིང་མ་ , Wyl. ''bkra shis tshe ring 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'' -  pp.749-755/756.</ref>


Ting gi Shyal Zangma, (Tib. མཐིང་གི་ཞལ་བཟང་མ་ , Wyl. ''mthing gi zhal bzang ma'')
#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


Chöpen Drin Zangma, (Tib. ཅོད་པན་མགྲིན་བཟང་མ་ , Wyl. ''cod pan mgrin bzang ma'')
===Longchen Nyingtik Terma Tradition===
 
#Tashi Tseringma - holding an arrow and a dice
Miyo Lang Zangma, (Tib. མི་གཡོ་གླང་བཟང་མ་ , Wyl. ''mi g.yo glang bzang ma'')  and
#Ting gi Shyal Zangma - holding a divination mirror
 
#Chöpen Drin Zangma - holding a treasure vase
Talkar  Dro Zangma, (Tib. གཏལ་དཀར་འགྲོ་བཟང་མ་ , Wyl. ''gtal dkar ‘gro bzang ma''). 
#Miyo Lang Zangma - holding a tray of wealth and riches
 
#Talkar Dro Zangma - holding a silver ladle of milk  
 
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 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
 
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  


==References==
==References==
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==External Links==
==External Links==
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/tseringma/index.html The Five Long-life Sisters]
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/tseringma/index.html The Five Long-life Sisters]
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/image.cfm/90159.html Tseringma with her four sisters.  Iconography from the Longchen Nyingtik cycle of terma teachings.]


*[http://www.himalayanart.org/image.cfm/90159.html Tseringma with her four sisters.  Iconography from the Longchen Nyingtik cycle of terma teachings.]
[[Category:Dharma Protectors]]
[[Category:Enumerations]]
[[Category:05-Five]]

Latest revision as of 14:02, 21 May 2024

Five Sisters of Long Life (Tib. ཚེ་རིང་མཆེད་ལྔ་, tsering ché nga, Wyl. tshe ring mched lnga) are guardians who pledged to protect the teachings. They are:-

  1. Tashi Tseringma (Tib. བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཚེ་རིང་མ་, Wyl. bkra shis tshe ring ma)
  2. Ting gi Shyal Zangma (Tib. མཐིང་གི་ཞལ་བཟང་མ་, Wyl. mthing gi zhal bzang ma)
  3. Chöpen Drin Zangma, (Tib. ཅོད་པན་མགྲིན་བཟང་མ་, Wyl. cod pan mgrin bzang ma)
  4. Miyo Lang Zangma (Tib. མི་གཡོ་གླང་བཟང་མ་, Wyl. mi g.yo glang bzang ma) and
  5. 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 Nyingtik terma tradition they are depicted in standing posture holding various accoutrements.[2]

  1. Tashi Tseringma – riding a snow lion
  2. Ting gi Shyal Zangma – riding a wild ass
  3. Chöpen Drin Zangma – riding a stag
  4. Miyo Lang Zangma – riding a tiger
  5. Talkar Dro Zangma - riding a dragon

Longchen Nyingtik Terma Tradition

  1. Tashi Tseringma - holding an arrow and a dice
  2. Ting gi Shyal Zangma - holding a divination mirror
  3. Chöpen Drin Zangma - holding a treasure vase
  4. Miyo Lang Zangma - holding a tray of wealth and riches
  5. Talkar Dro Zangma - holding a silver ladle of milk

References

  1. ↑ http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/tseringma/index.html The Five Long-life Sisters.
  2. ↑ 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

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