Thursday, January 26, 2017

Amoghasiddhi

What I found amazing about all this is Amoghasiddhi is considered the consort or Yab Yum of Tara which puts everything into a completely different context for me as I have been given several different Tara Empowerments by various Tibetan Lamas in the U.S.  I also purchased in Dharamshala a poster of the 21 taras which described each of their purposes and functions which I found very enlightening. When you do the TARA Mantra it invokes all 21 Taras to spin around in your aura and protect and cleanse it and keep it pure for example. Then doing specific  Mantras to specific Taras creates their specialties in your life.

The specific Tara mantra means translated: "OH Holy Mother Tara free me from the 8 great terrors"

Some of the 8 great terrors are "Death by drowning, Death by Fire etc."

This is important to Tibetans because you don't want to be distracted when dying because you need to be focused at death to wind up in a good place in a heaven realm. It is sort of like driving a car or piloting a plane, you need to get good directions and be calm enough to do it properly to get to where you actually want to go.

Either you have to do this yourself or others have to do this for you but usually both.

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Amoghasiddhi

Amoghasiddhi

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Amoghasiddhi
COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Boeddhabeeld van de Borobudur voorstellende Dhyani Boeddha Amogasiddha TMnr 10025273.jpg
Ancient sculpture of the buddha Amoghasiddhi. Borobudur, Central Java, Indonesia
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese 不空成就如來
Simplified Chinese 不空成就如来
Literal meaning Amoghasiddhi tathagata
Alternative Chinese name
Chinese 不空成就佛
Literal meaning Amoghasiddhi Buddha
Tibetan name
Tibetan དོན་ཡོད་གྲུབ་པ
Vietnamese name
Vietnamese alphabet Thành Tựu Như Lai
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic Үйлс бүтээгч
Mongolian script ᠲᠡᠭᠦᠰ ᠨᠥᠭᠴᠢᠭᠰᠡᠨ
Japanese name
Kanji 不空成就如来
Kana アモーガシッデイ
Tamil name
Tamil அமோகசித்தி புத்தர்
Sanskrit name
Sanskrit Amoghasiddhi
Tibetan Amoghasiddhi Buddha from the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco collection, dated 1300—1400 CE

Amoghasiddhi is one of the Five Wisdom Buddhas of the Vajrayana tradition of Buddhism. He is associated with the accomplishment of the Buddhist path and of the destruction of the poison of envy. His name means He Whose Accomplishment Is Not In Vain. His Shakti/consort is Tara, meaning Noble Deliverer or Noble Star and his mounts are garudas. He belongs to the family of Karma whose family symbol is the Double vajra/thunderbolt.[1][2]

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Amoghasiddhi is associated with the conceptual skandha or the conceptual mind (as opposed to the non-conceptual or sensational mind). His action towards the promotion of Buddhist paths is the pacification of evils. This is symbolised by Amoghasiddhi's symbol, the moon. He gestures in the mudra of fearlessness, symbolising his and his devotees' fearlessness towards the poisons or delusions.
He is usually coloured green in artwork and is associated with the air or wind element. His season is autumn and his heavenly quarter is the northern buddha-kṣetra called Prakuta.

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References


  • Double Dorje Archived January 21, 2009, at the Wayback Machine.
    1. "The Five Dhyani Buddhas (Great Buddhas of Wisdom)". Religionfacts.com. 2012-12-21. Retrieved 2013-06-14.

    Further reading

    • Mythology of India: Myths of India, Sri Lanka and Tibet, Rachel Storm, Anness Publishing Limited, Editor Helen Sudell, Page 15, Column 2-4, Line 5, Caption, Page 15, Column 4, Lines 1 - 5

    External links

    Media related to Amoghasiddhi at Wikimedia Commons

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