Six Sages of the Six Realms

Tibetan name
Wylie transliteration : thub pa drug
Other spellings: Tubpa Druk, Tupa Druk

The six ways are the highest nirmanakaya -Buddhas (Skt. Uttamanirāmaṇakāya ; Tib. Mchog gi sprul sku ) each one of the six realms of existence in the area of desire ( Kamadhatu : one of the three areas ) of the Mahayana - Buddhism , which is often in the wheel of life of the Tibetan Encountered Buddhism .

List of the Six Wise Men

Surname	Tibet. (Wylie)	chin. ( Pinyin / v / t) & jap.	Realm of existence	tib. (alternative)
Cintamanicakra	dbang po brgya byin	Ruyilun Guanyin 如意輪觀音 / 如意轮观音Guanyin with the wish fulfillment pearl (Japanese Nyoirin Kannon)	God realm	Tibetan Wangpo Gyajin (THL)
Vemacitra	thags bzang ris	Shiyimian Guanyin 十一面觀音 / 十一面观音Eleven-faced Guanyin (Japanese Juichi-men Kannon)	Antigods area (or demigods or asura area)	Tib. Taksangri (THL)
Śākyamuni	sh'akya thub pa	Zhunti Guanyin准提觀音/准提观音Achtzehnarmige Guanyin (Jap. Juntei Kannon) (in Shingon shū ) / Bukong juansuo Guanyin不空羂索觀音/不空罥索观音Lasso stop end Guanyin (Jap. Fuku Kenjaku) (in Tiantai )	Human area
Dhruvasiṃha	seng ge rab brtan	Matou Guanyin 馬頭觀音 / 马头观音Horsehead Guanyin (Japanese Bato Kannon)	Animal area	Tib. Senge Rabten
Jvālamukha	kha 'bar de ba	Qianshou Guanyin 千手觀音 / 千手观音 Thousand- armed Guanyin (Japanese Senju Kannon)	Area of the tormented spirits (or hunger ghosts or preta area)	Tib. Khabar Dewa
Dharmarāja	chos kyi rgyal po	Sheng Guanyin聖觀音 / 圣观音 (Japanese Sho Kannon )	Hell realm ( Naraka )	Tib. Chökyi Gyalpo

literature

Characteristic thangka of the three realms (chin. Sanjie ) ( formlessness , form , desire ) and six realms of existence (chin. Liudao ) of Buddhist cosmology

Nyoirin Kannon in Kanshin-ji , Osaka , Japan

Dorothy C. Wong: "Guanyin Images in Medieval China, 5th-8th Centuries" (University of Virginia) (PDF file; 2.20 MB), p. 277 including comments (based on: Yü Chün-fang, The Chinese Transformation of Avalokitesvara )
Gyurme Dorje : Tibet handbook (Six Sages of the Six Realms)
Padmasambhava, Stephan Schuhmacher (transl.): The Tibetan Book of the Dead - The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Intermediate States Revealed by Terton Karma Lingpa . Goldmann Verlag, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-33774-3 (First complete edition. In English, translated by Gyurme Dorje . Ed. By Graham Coleman with Thupten Jinpa. In German translated by Stephan Schuhmacher. With introductory Commentary by the XIV Dalai Lama - online ; PDF file; 652 kB)
Dudjom Rinpoche: The Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, Its Fundamentals and History , trans. and ed. Gyurme Dorje (Boston: Wisdom, 1991), Vol. 1, pp. 129-130.

Web links

rigpawiki.org: Six Munis - English
rigpawiki.org: Supreme nirmanakaya - English
trinity.village.virginia.edu: the Six Munis - English
considerthefuture.com: The Six Realms of Cyclic Existence - English

References and footnotes

↑ Or Six Munis ( rigpawiki.org ). - According to a translation in the Rangjung Yeshe Tibetan-English Dharma Dictionary ([ry]) die

"Six emanations of Samantabhadra which tame the beings of the six realms"

(German: the essence of the six emanations of Samantabhadra, taming the six realms ) (quoted from trinity.village.virginia.edu:the Six Munis ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this note - found on November 25, 2009)@1@ 2

↑ An overview of the very confused Avalokiteshvara ( Guanyin ) terminology is provided by karaniya.com: Avalokiteshvara ( Memento from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (found on November 25, 2009; PDF file; 522 kB)

↑ cf. randomhouse.de: Introductory commentary by His Holiness the XIV. Dalai Lama on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (PDF file; 652 kB), p. 21 (found on November 25, 2009)

↑ Instead of Bukong juansuo Guanyin 不空罥索观音, Zhunti Guanyin 准提观音 is added as the sixth in Shingon-shū , which is why instead of a six number there is also a seven number (七观音).

[1] Or Six Munis ( rigpawiki.org ). - According to a translation in the Rangjung Yeshe Tibetan-English Dharma Dictionary ([ry]) die

"Six emanations of Samantabhadra which tame the beings of the six realms"

(German: the essence of the six emanations of Samantabhadra, taming the six realms ) (quoted from trinity.village.virginia.edu:the Six Munis ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this note - found on November 25, 2009)@1@ 2

[2] An overview of the very confused Avalokiteshvara ( Guanyin ) terminology is provided by karaniya.com: Avalokiteshvara ( Memento from September 20, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (found on November 25, 2009; PDF file; 522 kB)

[3] . randomhouse.de: Introductory commentary by His Holiness the XIV. Dalai Lama on the Tibetan Book of the Dead (PDF file; 652 kB), p. 21 (found on November 25, 2009)

[4] Instead of Bukong juansuo Guanyin 不空罥索观音, Zhunti Guanyin 准提观音 is added as the sixth in Shingon-shū , which is why instead of a six number there is also a seven number (七观音).