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#[[Buddhalochana]] (Skt.; Tib. [[སངས་རྒྱས་སྤྱན་]], ''Sangyé chenma'') the consort of [[Akshobhya]], who represents the purity of the element '''earth'''
#[[Buddhalochana]] (Skt.; Tib. [[སངས་རྒྱས་སྤྱན་]], ''Sangyé chenma'') the consort of [[Akshobhya]], who represents the purity of the element '''earth'''
#[[Mamaki]] (Skt.; Tib. [[མ་མ་ཀི་]], ''Mamaki'') the consort of [[Ratnasambhava]], who represents the purity of the element '''water'''
#[[Mamaki]] (Skt.; Tib. [[མ་མ་ཀི་]], ''Mamaki'') the consort of [[Ratnasambhava]], who represents the purity of the element '''water'''
#[[Pandaravasini]] (Skt.; Tib. [[དགོ་དཀར་མོ་]], ''Gökarmo'') the consort of [[Amitabha]], who represents the purity of the element '''fire'''
#[[Pandaravasini]] (Skt.; Tib. [[གོས་དཀར་མོ་]], ''Gökarmo'') the consort of [[Amitabha]], who represents the purity of the element '''fire'''
#[[Samayatara]] (Skt.; Tib. [[དམ་ཚིག་སྒྲོལ་མ་]], ''Damtsik Drolma'') also known as Green Tara, the consort of [[Amoghasiddhi]], who represents the purity of the element '''wind'''<noinclude>
#[[Samayatara]] (Skt.; Tib. [[དམ་ཚིག་སྒྲོལ་མ་]], ''Damtsik Drolma'') also known as Green Tara, the consort of [[Amoghasiddhi]], who represents the purity of the element '''wind'''<noinclude>



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The five female buddhas of the five families, also known as the five mothers (Wyl. yum lnga) are:

  1. Dhatvishvari (Skt.; Tib. དབྱིངས་ཕྱུག་མ་, Ying Chukma) also known as Vajra Datvishvari or White Tara, the consort of Vairochana, who represents the purity of the element space
  2. Buddhalochana (Skt.; Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་སྤྱན་, Sangyé chenma) the consort of Akshobhya, who represents the purity of the element earth
  3. Mamaki (Skt.; Tib. མ་མ་ཀི་, Mamaki) the consort of Ratnasambhava, who represents the purity of the element water
  4. Pandaravasini (Skt.; Tib. གོས་དཀར་མོ་, Gökarmo) the consort of Amitabha, who represents the purity of the element fire
  5. Samayatara (Skt.; Tib. དམ་ཚིག་སྒྲོལ་མ་, Damtsik Drolma) also known as Green Tara, the consort of Amoghasiddhi, who represents the purity of the element wind