Pratisara (Main figure) (Top to bottom): 12-Armed Maha Pratisara, 2-Armed Pratisara and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Pratisara (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Sosordrangma (Tibetan) The female Maha Pratisara is found within chapter fifteen of the Vajrapanjara Tantra. In the Vajrapanjara Tantra, she is associated with two other deities who are Bhutadamara Vajrapani and White Prajnaparamita. She is...
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Manjushri Nagarakshasa (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Buddha Akshobhya, Manjushri, Manjushri Nagarakshasa and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Buddha Akshobhya (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Mitrugpa (Tibetan) Buddha Akshobhya is one of the Five Dhyani Buddhas and represents the consciousness aspect of the five aggregates purified and in its enlightened form. The other four purified forms of the...
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Janguli (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Janguli and Dorje Shugden Deity: Janguli (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Dugselma (Tibetan) The historical Buddha Shakyamuni was the first to reveal the mantra of Janguli, a goddess who protects against snake bites and all manner of poison. Snakes like other wild and dangerous animals can be overcome by the...
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Chenrezig Eight Perils (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Chenrezig Eight Perils and Dorje Shugden Deity: Chenrezig (Tibetan) Alternative name: Avalokiteshvara (Sanskrit) Chenrezig’s sacred name literally means the ‘All-Seeing Lord’. He is regarded as the embodiment of compassion and his divine presence is invoked through his well-known six syllable mantra, OM MANI PADME HUM. He...
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Dipamkara Srijnana Atisha (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Dipamkara Srijnana Atisha, Dromtonpa and Dorje Shugden. Lama: Dipamkara Srijnana Atisha (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Jowo Je Atisha (Tibetan) Dipamkara Srijnana Atisha was a great Bengali (Indian) master, who travelled to Tibet in order to translate and propagate Buddhism at a time when the teachings had declined...
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Chenrezig Gyalwa Gyatso (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Chenrezig Gyalwa Gyatso and Dorje Shugden Deity: Chenrezig Gyalwa Gyatso (Tibetan) Alternative name: Avalokiteshvara Jinasagara (Sanskrit) Jinasagara, otherwise known as Gyalwa Gyatso, the ‘Ocean of Conquerors’ is a meditational form of Chenrezig, the Buddha of Compassion. Jinasagara’s practice is classified as a Highest Yoga Tantra which...
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Ksitigarbha (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Ksitigarbha and Dorje Shugden Deity: Phagpa Sai Nyingpo (Tibetan) Alternative name: Ksitigarbha (Sanskrit) Ksitigarbha is widely worshipped in East Asian Buddhism. His name Kṣitigarbha literally means ‘Earth-store’, ‘Earth Treasury’ or ‘Earth Womb’. He is mainly a Bodhisattva figure mentioned in the Mahayana Purvapravidhana Sutra and little mention within...
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Buddha Shakyamuni (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Guru Rinpoche, Lama Tsongkhapa, Buddha Shakyamuni, Four-Faced Mahakala, Dorje Drolo, Palden Lhamo and Dorje Shugden. Lama: Guru Rinpoche (Tibetan) Alternative names: Guru Padmasambhava (Sanskrit); Lopon Rinpoche (Tibetan) Guru Rinpoche, also known as Guru Padmasambhava, was an 8th Century Indian Buddhist master who travelled to Tibet in order...
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Buddha Shakyamuni (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Buddha Shakyamuni and Dorje Shugden Deity: Buddha Shakyamuni (Sanskrit) Alternative Name: Sangye Shakya Tubpa (Tibetan) Shakyamuni is the historical Buddha who founded Buddhism in ancient India about 2,500 years ago. After an exhaustive search, he finally attained perfect and complete enlightenment under the Bodhi tree in Bodhgaya....
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Samantabhadra (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Samantabhadra and Dorje Shugden Deity: Samantabhadra (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Kuntu Zangpo (Tibetan) In the Nyingma tradition, Buddha Samantabhadra represents the primordial Buddha or the Dharmakaya aspect, which is the mind of complete enlightenment. Buddha Samantabhadra arose from descriptions in the Guhyagarbha Tantra and other tantric texts. He is...
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Trakpo Sumtril (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Tulku Drakpa Gyaltsen, Buddha Amitabha, Lama Tsongkhapa, Trakpo Sumtril, Chenrezig Sengetra, Nageshvaraja and Dorje Shugden. Lama: Tulku Drakpa Gyaltsen (Tibetan) Tulku Drakpa Gyaltsen was the heir to the Zimkhang Gongma line of incarnations. The first in the line of these illustrious incarnations was the great Panchen Sonam...
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Mahachakra Vajrapani (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Mahachakra Vajrapani and Dorje Shugden Deity: Mahachakra Vajrapani (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Chagna Dorje Korlo Chenpo (Tibetan) Vajrapani is also known as Guhyapati, Lord of Secrets, and he bestows practitioners with a special aptitude to practise Tantra. He is well-known to pacify inner and outer maras. Inner maras...
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Three Forms of Kalarupa (Main figures) (Top to bottom): Three Forms of Kalarupa and Dorje Shugden Deity: Kalarupa (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Damchen Chogyal (Tibetan) Kalarupa arose as the main Dharma Protector of the Yamantaka Tantras. Just like Yamantaka, he is an emanation of Manjushri, the Buddha of Wisdom. The practice of propitiating Kalarupa is...
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Standing Ksitigarbha (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Ksitigarbha, Buddha Amitabha and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Standing Ksitigarbha (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Dizangwang Pusa (Chinese) Ksitigrabha is widely worshipped in East Asian Buddhism in the form of a Mahayana Buddhist monk. His name Kṣitigarbha literally means ‘Earth-store’, ‘Earth Treasury’ or ‘Earth Womb’. He is widely known for...
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Eight Medicine Buddhas (Main figures) (Top to bottom): Eight Medicine Buddhas, White Mahakala, Four-Faced Mahakala and Dorje Shugden. Deity: Medicine Buddha (English) Alternative names: Bhaisajyaguru (Sanskrit); Menlha (Tibetan) The Medicine Buddha made a vow during a previous aeon that if any being who suffers from sickness calls upon on him, he will heal them....
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Standing Green Tara (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Standing Green Tara and Dorje Shugden Deity: Arya Tara (Sanskrit) Alternative names: Green Tara (English); Shyama Tara (Sanskrit); Drolma (Tibetan); Droljang (Tibetan) Tara is known as Jetsun Drolma in Tibetan and she is a very important figure in Tibetan Buddhism. She is known as the ‘saviouress’...
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Four-Armed Chenrezig (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Four-Armed Chenrezig and Dorje Shugden Deity: Four-Armed Chenrezig (English) Alternative name: Caturbhuja Avalokiteshvara (Sanskrit) Chenrezig’s sacred name literally means the “All-Seeing Lord”. He is regarded as the embodiment of compassion and his divine presence is invoked through his well-known six syllable mantra, OM MANI PADME HUM. His...
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Kurukulle (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Kurukulle and Dorje Shugden Deity: Kurukulle (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Rigchema (Tibetan) The sublime Kurukulle is a female deity who is red in colour. Her practice is one that invokes upon the activity of control and magnetisation. She is in dancing posture and has four arms holding a bow,...
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Vajrapani (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Vajrapani and Dorje Shugden Deity: Vajrapani (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Chagna Dorje (Tibetan) Known as Chagna Dorje in Tibetan, Vajrapani’s name literally means ‘Holder of the Vajra’. He is wrathful, appearing in the form of a yaksha being. With his right leg bent and left outstretched, he stands in...
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Samayavajra (Main figure) (Top to bottom): Samayavajra and Dorje Shugden Deity: Samayavajra (Sanskrit) Alternative name: Damtsig Dorje (Tibetan) Samayavajra’s name literally means ‘Indestructible Close Bond’. He is believed to have arisen from the collective minds of all the enlightened Buddhas. His practice stems from the Guhyasamaja (literally “Secret Assembly”) Tantra, which refers to the...
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