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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Source: Wisdom Library: Tibetan Buddhist Teachers, Deities and other Spiritual beingsrgyal ba rigs lnga (嘟⑧緬嗑编剑嗉嬥綎嗉嬥舰嘟侧絺嘟︵紜嘟｀緮) refers to the 鈥渢he five peaceful Buddhas (of the sambhogakaya)鈥� (in Sanskrit: jinakula) and forms part of the 鈥�Forty-two Peaceful Deities鈥� (Tibetan: zhi ba'i lha zhe gnyis) according to various sources such as the Guhyagarbha Tantra and the Tibetan Book of the Dead.
The five peaceful Buddhas (rgyal ba rigs lnga) are:
- Vairocana (rnam par snang mdzad),
- Ak峁bhya (mi bskyod pa),
- Ratnasambhava (rin chen 'byung gnas or rin chen 'byung ldan),
- Amit膩bha (snang ba mtha' yas),
- Amoghasiddhi (don yod grub pa).
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha鈥檚 words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (惫补箩谤补测腻苍补) are collected indepently.
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Partial matches: Bala.
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