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'''Buddhas of the [[five families]]''' (Skt. ''jinakula''; Tib. རྒྱལ་བ་རིགས་ལྔ་, [[Wyl.]] ''rgyal ba rigs lnga'') — the five peaceful buddhas of the [[sambhogakaya]]:  
'''Buddhas of the [[five families]]''' (Skt. ''jinakula''; Tib. [[རྒྱལ་བ་རིགས་ལྔ་]], [[Wyl.]] ''rgyal ba rigs lnga'') — the five peaceful buddhas of the [[sambhogakaya]]:  


#[[Vairochana]], [[buddha family]]
#[[Vairochana]] (Skt. Vairocana; Tib. [[རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད་]], Wyl. ''rnam par snang mdzad''), [[buddha family]]
#[[Akshobhya]], [[vajra family]]
#[[Akshobhya]] (Skt. Akṣobhya; Tib. [[མི་བསྐྱོད་པ་]], Wyl. ''mi bskyod pa''), [[vajra family]]
#[[Ratnasambhava]], [[ratna family]]
#[[Ratnasambhava]] (Skt. Ratnasambhava; Tib. [[རིན་ཆེན་འབྱུང་གནས་]] or [[རིན་ཆེན་འབྱུང་ལྡན་]], Wyl. ''rin chen 'byung gnas'', ''rin chen 'byung ldan''), [[ratna family]]
#[[Amitabha]], [[padma family]]
#[[Amitabha]] (Skt. Amitābha; Tib. [[འོད་དཔག་མེད་]], Wyl. '' 'od dpag med'' or Tib. [[སྣང་བ་མཐའ་ཡས་]], Wyl. ''snang ba mtha' yas'')), [[padma family]]
#[[Amoghasiddhi]], [[karma family]]<noinclude>
#[[Amoghasiddhi]] (Skt. Amoghasiddhi; Tib. [[དོན་ཡོད་གྲུབ་པ་]], Wyl. ''don yod grub pa''), [[karma family]] <noinclude>


They can be in union with the [[five female buddhas]]. See Diagram in [[Five buddha families]] article for more details.
They can be in union with the [[five female buddhas]]. See Diagram in [[Five buddha families]] article for more details.

Latest revision as of 10:22, 13 February 2026

Buddhas of the five families (Skt. jinakula; Tib. རྒྱལ་བ་རིགས་ལྔ་, Wyl. rgyal ba rigs lnga) — the five peaceful buddhas of the sambhogakaya:

  1. Vairochana (Skt. Vairocana; Tib. རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད་, Wyl. rnam par snang mdzad), buddha family
  2. Akshobhya (Skt. Akṣobhya; Tib. མི་བསྐྱོད་པ་, Wyl. mi bskyod pa), vajra family
  3. Ratnasambhava (Skt. Ratnasambhava; Tib. རིན་ཆེན་འབྱུང་གནས་ or རིན་ཆེན་འབྱུང་ལྡན་, Wyl. rin chen 'byung gnas, rin chen 'byung ldan), ratna family
  4. Amitabha (Skt. Amitābha; Tib. འོད་དཔག་མེད་, Wyl. 'od dpag med or Tib. སྣང་བ་མཐའ་ཡས་, Wyl. snang ba mtha' yas)), padma family
  5. Amoghasiddhi (Skt. Amoghasiddhi; Tib. དོན་ཡོད་གྲུབ་པ་, Wyl. don yod grub pa), karma family

They can be in union with the five female buddhas. See Diagram in Five buddha families article for more details.

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