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The '''five female buddhas''' of the [[five families]], also known as the '''five mothers''' (Tib. ཡུམ་ལྔ་, [[Wyl.]] ''yum lnga'') are: | The '''five female buddhas''' of the [[five families]], also known as the '''five mothers''' (Tib. ཡུམ་ལྔ་, [[Wyl.]] ''yum lnga'') are: | ||
#[[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''' | #[[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''' | ||
#[[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་]]མ་, ''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. [[གོས་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''' | ||
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The five female buddhas of the five families, also known as the five mothers (Tib. ཡུམ་ལྔ་, Wyl. yum lnga) are:
- 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
- Buddhalochana (Skt.; Tib. སངས་རྒྱས་སྤྱན་མ་, 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
- 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