Tibetan Buddhism Icon – Part i

Tibetan Religious imagery can be overwhelmed during your Tibet trip. The scale is breathtaking. However, it helps you to understand and surely enjoying if you could recognize some of those when you travel through Tibetan plateau. In this Tibetan Buddhism Iconographic Guide you will find the names of the deities most frequently depicted in the monasteries, Chorten and Temples across Tibetan plateau

Among of which, the image representing the spiritual teachers of the past are Buddha Sakyamuni, Padmasambhava and Tsongkhapa…and more; those representing the meditational deities are Vajrakumara, Cakrasamvara , Kalacakra; those representing dakinis of sudden-enlighten activity is Vajravarahi; and the protector deities are Mahakala, Shridevi, and more….

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–Buddhas of the Five Family–

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—Buddhas of the Three Times—

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–First of the Seven Generations of Past Buddhas–

Namzik

Vipashyin

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-Formost of the Eight Medicine Buddhas–

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-Sixteen Elders–

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–Eight Bodhisattvas–

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–Lords of the Three Enlightened Families–

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–Aspects of Avalokiteshvara–

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–Three Deities of Longevity–

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–Meditational Deities–

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–Protector Deities–

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-Five Aspects of Pehar–

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–Protector–

Damchen Chogyel

Dharmaraja

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