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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. ''Tubpa Druk''; Tib. 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. ''Wangpo Gyajin''; Wyl. ''dbang po brgya byin'') for the [[gods|god]] realms | # Indra Kaushika (Skt.; Tib. 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་, ''Taksangri''; Wyl. ''thags bzang ris'') for the [[demi-gods]] or asura realms | ||
# [[Shakyamuni]] (Wyl. '' | # [[Shakyamuni]] (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 or Dhruvasiṃha (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 | # Jvālamukhadeva (Skt.; 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> | # 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 14:39, 21 October 2011
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
- 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.