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Cakrasaṃvara Lūipa

Glorious Cakrasaṃvara Lūipa is blue in colour with four faces and twelve hands. The main face is black, the left face is green, the back face is red, and the right face is yellow. Each face has three eyes. Of the twelve hands, the first two hold a vajra and bell and embrace red Mother Vārāhī, who holds a knife and skull. The lower two hands hold an elephant hide with the threatening gesture. The remaining four right hands hold a ḍamaru, battle-axe, curved knife, and trident. The remaining four left hands hold a khaṭvāṅga, skull, lasso and the Brahmā’s head. His topknot is marked with a crossed vajra. Each of his heads is adorned with five dry skulls strung with a garland of black vajras on the top and bottom. On the left side of his head is a face that is bound in the shape of a slightly tilted half-moon. He has the expression of nine dances with his four fangs bared. He wears a five hundred fresh head necklace and a tiger’s hide as his lower skirt. He is adorned with the six bone ornaments and stands with his right leg outstretched on a seat of blue Vajrabhairava and red Kālarātri. The eight heroes and heroines are on the eight spokes of the mind wheel, and the eight dakinis are at the four doors and the four intermediate directions.

Arhat Madhyantika

When Arya Ananda was about to pass into Nirvana a group of 500 sages visited him. All of them took the vows of renunciation and full ordination while bathing in the Ganges. As soon as they took the vows they attained the state of Arhat-hood. The principal sage in this group is referred to as Madhyantika. Arya Madhyantika approached Arya Ananda and expressed his wish to attain Nirvan before Arya Ananda passed into Nirvana. Having been thus approached, Arya Ananda instructed him to not pass into Nirvana and to travel to the land of Kashmir and to work for the welfare of sentient beings. As per Arya Ananda’s instructions he miraculously appeared in Kashmir where a vicious Naga resided. The Naga was extremely hostile to all beings. While Arya Madhyantika was in meditative equipoise to subdue this Naga, the Naga realized it and showered colorful rain and flowers and vowed to never ever transgress his pledge to not harm beings. The Naga also pledged that he would offer saffron equal in space to that which the Chivara of Arya Madhyantika casts a shadow on. Arya Madhyantika then miraculously flew into the sky and manifested a vast Chivara that cast a very expansive shadow that covered the whole of Kashmir and thus ensured that the whole land of Kashmir would be forever covered with saffron. Saffron that would bless all beings till the doctrine lasts was brought from Mount Gandhamadana and planted in Kashmir. He also influenced the practice of making extensive offerings of saffron. He preached the doctrine in Kashmir for over 20 years and helped it flourish and later attained Nirvana.

SthaviraNagasena

SthaviraNagasena resides on a major mountain in Rajgriha along with his retinue of 1200 Arhats. He holds a vase in his left hand and a mendicant’s staff in his right hand.He was born in a Kshatriyaroyal family in North India in a city called Vikshama Nagar.He was apprehensive about the unwholesome activities he may have to engage in if he assumed his royal responsibilities. He renounced his royal life. He received his Bhikshu ordination from the Buddha when the latter was 55 years old. He later attained the state of an Arhat.He is renowned as one who holds a treasurevase filled with precious jewels offered to him by the Gods from the Heaven of the Four Guardian Kings to fulfil the needs of his disciples.If one makes supplications to SthaviraNagasena one benefits from purification of major sins.

Red Lion-Face Dakini of the Sakya System

The Lion-Face Dakini of Wisdom has a red-colored body with one face and two arms. Her right hand holds a gold-colored curved-knife that she raises toward the sky. The left hand holds a blood-filled skull-cup at her heart. In the crook of her [left] elbow is a khatvanga. She has three eyes and her yellow hair streams upward. Five dry skulls ornament her crown and she wears a necklace of fifty moist human heads. She wears a tiger-skin lower garment and is ornamented with the five mudras. Upon a lotus and sun disc and two entwined prostrate <or supine—face down or back down?> male and female Rudras, with her right leg is bent and her left stretched out she stands amid a roaring mass of wisdom fire. This very wisdom dakini is far superior to others in granting blessings to bestow common and supreme siddhis by means of the four activities. Because she is particularly acclaimed for opposing both human and nonhuman curses, black magic and so forth, in Tibetan there are many rituals such as the Lion-Face Thousandfold Opposition, Lion-Face Subduing Wrath, and so forth.

Five Deity White Dzambhala Riding a Dragon, according to the system of the Incomparable JowoJé [Atisha]

When the Incomparably Great JowoJé Shri Atisha saw a person oppressed by hunger and thirst, he generated immeasurable compassion, turned his face toward the ground, and with great sadness shed tears. As he did so, from a tear in the left eye of the Noble Great Compassionate One [Avalokiteshvara] came the Lady Tara, and from the right came the Noble White Dzambhala with one face and two arms, the left hand holding a jewel-marked club. Beautified by silk and jewel ornaments, he rode a turquoise thunder-dragon upon a lotus and moon seat, and four retinue dakinis surrounded him. Atisha saw these deities, who blessed him and gave him permission. From the mouth of Dzambhala fell a rain of pearls and so forth. By relying on this deity, in this life one’s merit will increase and wealth and resources will flourish. Because he is an emanation of the Noble Great Compassionate One, blessing will come such as being born in a pure land in the next life. Various extensive and condensed versions of the “Calling in Prosperity” ritual of this deity were ubiquitous in Tibet.

Solitary Bhagavan Akshobya according to the JowoJé System

The Solitary Bhagavan Akshobya, according to the system of the Incomparable JowoJé Shri Atisha, has a blue-colored body with the appearance and dress of a nirmanakaya. He sits in the vajra posture on a lotus and moon seat, his right hand pressing the earth and his left in the gesture of meditative equipoise. He wears red monastic robes and is beautified with the marks and signs. By relying on this deity, one’s mind will not be disturbed by afflictions, and all heavy degeneration of samaya and obscurations to wealth and so on will be purified. Because there are such inconceivable benefits, for the sake of all things in life and death one should make requests to him and recite his dharani-mantra. Especially, if one relies on this deity then all one’s ancestors who have passed away will be born as deities and will. In most Tibetan monasteries there is an intensive practice of the Bhagavan Victor Akshobya.

Dharmakīrti

Glorious Dharmakīrti was born in the brahmin caste in the land of Kerala in southern India at the beginning of the sixth century. He was called Dharmakīrti because he took ordination from master Dharmakṣema. He became learned in the three baskets of the non Buddhist and Buddhist schools of tenets. He studied logic with master Īśvarasena, and due to he excelled the master, he was praised as the ornament of logic among the six ornaments. He lived in Nālandā as his principal seat. He studied countless secret mantra under Dārikapa and others and attained the siddhi of Heruka( the yogic accomplishment of Heruka).He defeated the tīrthikas, such as TonpaShönuRolpa and Saṅgācārya, using reasoning and converted into Buddhist nearly one hundred thousand monks and upasaka (laypeople with vows ). He composed more than fifteen treatises, including the root text of the Pramāṇavārttika and what are known as the seven treatises the body and its branches. These were also translated into Tibetan. He had innumerable disciples with whom he had a spiritual connection, such as the master Lhawang lo. During the latter part of his life, he stayed in southern India, built a monastery in Kaliṅga, and preached the Dharma extensively to an infinite number of people. Finally, he passed into nirvāṇa there.

Orange Manjushri

Orange Manjushri has orange like refined gold coloured body with one face and two hands. His right hand holds blue sword of wisdom hanging towards shoulder and his left hand raised in the position of heart, holding the root of a blue lotus which is fully blossomed at the direction of ear on which rests a manuscript, compilation of all excellent speech of Buddha. He is decorated with scarf and precious jewels. He sits in Vajra posture with legs crossed, having five knotted locks of hair gathered at the crown of head. He is decorated with qualities such as backdrop of moon light and possess five knotted locks of hair that symbolise belonging to the family of lord Aksobhya. He possesses inconceivable power or blessing to bestow all the siddhi that realises the ultimate reality/ thatness and all conventional phenomenon. In Tibet many great texts that had been composed such as the rituals and sadhanas for increasing wisdom and the verses of praise to him. The direct lineages of accomplishment of Orange Ara Pacha's rituals and sadhanas was passed from the mahasiddha Jetari and received by the elder and younger Vajrasanas, Bari lotsawa, and the five great predecessors of Sachen and they have actual vision of him.

SthaviraAngiraja

SthaviraAngiraja resides on the great snow mountain of Kailasha in the land of Tibet along with a retinue of 1300 Arhats. He holds a tail wisk and an incense bowl in his hands.He was born to the householder Subhadra in the Indian city of Rajgriha. Once, the Buddha arrived at this house while he was on his alms round. Subhadra’s wife was pregnant at that time and he enquired with the Buddha if the child would be a boy or a girl. The Buddha prophesied that a boy will be born and he will become a Arhat if he gets ordained.Some naked ascetics deceived Subhadra and killed her by rubbing her belly. The naked ascetics then hid the corpse in the cremation grounds and claimed that Subhadra’s wife is dead. They blamed the Buddha. The Buddha proceeded to the cremation ground along with his disciples. On seeing the Buddha approaching the cremation ground, the naked ascetics tried to cremate the corpse. However, the belly and the parts around it did not burn and a gorgeous baby emerged from the belly. The baby was named Baby-emerged-from-fire. When he grew up, he accumulated a lot of wealth as a householder. He took refuge in a non-Buddhist tradition. At the age of 27 he received his Pravraja (Monastic Ordination) from the Buddha and later became an Arhat. If one makes supplications to this Sthavira, one is blessed with the company of spiritual friends; one’s wealth prospers and receives the blessings that one may receive from venerating and making offerings to the Three Jewels.