Six Munis
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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. Kauśika; 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. Śākyamuni; Tib. ཤཱཀྱ་ཐབ་པ་, Wyl. shAkya thub pa) for the human realm
- *Shravasingha, *Dhruvasiṃha or *Siṃhapradyota (Skt.; Tib. སེང་གེ་རབ་བརྟན་, Sengé Rabten, Wyl. seng ge rab brtan) for the animal realm
- Jvalamukhadeva (Skt. Jvālāmukhadeva; Tib. ཁ་འབར་དེ་བ་, Khabar Dewa, Wyl. kha ‘bar de ba) for the preta realms
- Dharmaraja (Skt. Dharmarāja; 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