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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'' | 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. དབང་པོ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་, ''Wangpo Gyajin'' | # Indra Kaushika (Skt.; 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. ཐགས་བཟང་རིས་, ''Taksangri'' | # Vemachitra (Skt. ''Vemacitra''; Tib. ཐགས་བཟང་རིས་ or [[ཐག་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 beings|human]] realm | # [[Shakyamuni]] (Skt.; Tib. ཤཱཀྱ་ཐབ་པ་, Wyl. ''shAkya thub pa'') for the [[human beings|human]] realm | ||
# Shravasingha or Dhruvasiṃha (Skt.; Tib. སེང་གེ་རབ་བརྟན་, ''Sengé Rabten'' | # 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'' | # 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'' | # Dharmarāja (Skt.; Tib. ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་, ''Chökyi Gyalpo'', Wyl. ''chos kyi rgyal po'') for the [[hells|hell realms]]<noinclude> | ||
==Alternative Translations== | ==Alternative Translations== | ||
Revision as of 21:51, 13 March 2022
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:
- Indra Kaushika (Skt.; Tib. དབང་པོ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་ or ལྷའི་དབང་པོ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་, Wangpo Gyajin, Wyl. dbang po brgya byin) for the god 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 (Skt.; 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
- 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