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[[Image:6munis.jpg|thumb|250px|The Six Munis © 2004 Shechen Archives]]
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The '''Six Munis''' (Skt.; Tib. ''Tubpa Druk''; [[Wyl.]] ''thub pa drug'') are the [[supreme nirmanakaya]] [[buddha]]s for each of the [[six classes of beings]]. They are:  
The '''Six Munis''' (Skt.; Tib. ཐུབ་པ་དྲུག་, ''Tubpa Druk'', [[Wyl.]] ''thub pa drug'') are the [[supreme nirmanakaya]] [[buddha]]s for each of the [[six classes of beings]]. They are:  


# Indra Kaushika (Skt.; Tib. ''Wangpo Gyajin''; Wyl. ''dbang po brgya byin'') for the [[gods|god]] realms  
# Indra Kaushika (Skt. ''Kauśika''; Tib. དབང་པོ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་ or [[ལྷའི་དབང་པོ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་]], ''Wangpo Gyajin'', Wyl. ''dbang po brgya byin'') for the [[gods|god]] realms  
# Vemachitra (Skt. ''Vemacitra''; Tib. ''Taksangri''; Wyl. ''thags bzang ris'') for the [[demi-gods]] or asura realms  
# Vemachitra (Skt. ''Vemacitra''; Tib. ཐགས་བཟང་རིས་ or [[ཐག་བཟང་རིས་]], ''Taksangri'', Wyl. ''thags bzang ris'') for the [[demi-gods]] or asura realms  
# [[Shakyamuni]] (Wyl. ''sh’akya thub pa'') for the [[human beings|human]] realm  
# [[Shakyamuni]] (Skt. ''Śākyamuni''; Tib. ཤཱཀྱ་ཐབ་པ་, Wyl. ''shAkya thub pa'') for the [[human beings|human]] realm  
# Shravasingha or Dhruvasiṃha (Skt.; Tib. ''Sengé Rabten''; Wyl. ''seng ge rab brtan'') for the [[animal realm]]
# *Shravasingha, *Dhruvasiṃha or *Siṃhapradyota (Skt.; Tib. སེང་གེ་རབ་བརྟན་, ''Sengé Rabten'', Wyl. ''seng ge rab brtan'') for the [[animal realm]]
# Jvālamukhadeva (Skt.; Tib. ''Khabar Dewa''; Wyl. ''kha ‘bar de ba'') for the [[preta]] realms  
# Jvalamukhadeva (Skt. ''Jvālāmukhadeva''; Tib. ཁ་འབར་དེ་བ་, ''Khabar Dewa'', Wyl. ''kha ‘bar de ba'') for the [[preta]] realms  
# Dharmarāja (Skt.; Tib. ''Chökyi Gyalpo''; Wyl. ''chos kyi rgyal po'') for the [[hells|hell realms]]<noinclude>
# Dharmaraja (Skt. ''Dharmarāja''; Tib. 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==
*[[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, ISBN  978-0861711994


[[Category: Buddhas and Deities]]
[[Category: Buddhas and Deities]]

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The Six Munis © 2004 Shechen Archives

The Six Munis (Skt.; Tib. ཐུབ་པ་དྲུག་, Tubpa Druk, Wyl. thub pa drug) are the supreme nirmanakaya buddhas for each of the six classes of beings. They are:

  1. Indra Kaushika (Skt. Kauśika; Tib. དབང་པོ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་ or ལྷའི་དབང་པོ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་, Wangpo Gyajin, Wyl. dbang po brgya byin) for the god realms
  2. Vemachitra (Skt. Vemacitra; Tib. ཐགས་བཟང་རིས་ or ཐག་བཟང་རིས་, Taksangri, Wyl. thags bzang ris) for the demi-gods or asura realms
  3. Shakyamuni (Skt. Śākyamuni; Tib. ཤཱཀྱ་ཐབ་པ་, Wyl. shAkya thub pa) for the human realm
  4. *Shravasingha, *Dhruvasiṃha or *Siṃhapradyota (Skt.; Tib. སེང་གེ་རབ་བརྟན་, Sengé Rabten, Wyl. seng ge rab brtan) for the animal realm
  5. Jvalamukhadeva (Skt. Jvālāmukhadeva; Tib. ཁ་འབར་དེ་བ་, Khabar Dewa, Wyl. kha ‘bar de ba) for the preta realms
  6. Dharmaraja (Skt. Dharmarāja; Tib. ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་, Chökyi Gyalpo, Wyl. chos kyi rgyal po) for the hell realms

Alternative Translations

  • Six Sages

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, ISBN 978-0861711994
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