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Medicine Buddha

Also known as Sangye Menlha. Mantra:  ཏདྱཐཱ་ཨོཾབྷེ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་བྷེ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་མཧཱ་བྷེ་ཥ་ཛྱེ་རཱ་ཛཱ་ས་མུངྒ་ཏེ་སྭཱཧཱ།། 12 Vows of Medicine Buddha 1. I vow that my body shall shine as beams of brilliant light on this infinite and boundless world, showering on all beings, getting rid of their ignorance and worries with my teachings. May all beings be like me, with a perfect status and character, upright mind and soul, and finally attaining enlightenment like the Buddha. 2. I vow that my body be like crystal, pure and flawless, radiating rays of splendid light to every corner, brightening up and enlightening all beings with wisdom. With the blessings of compassion, may all beings strengthen their spiritual power and physical energy, so that they could fulfill their dreams in the right track. 3. I vow that I shall grant by means of boundless wisdom, all beings with the inexhaustible things that they require, and relieving them from all pains and guilt resulting from materialistic desires. Alth
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Eight traditional offering on shrine/altar

1. water for drinking (arghaṃ) 2. water for cleansing the hands and the feet (padyaṃ) 3. flowers (puṣpe) 4. incense (dhupe) 5. a lamp/light (aloke) 6. perfumed/scented water (gandhe) 7. food (naivedye) 8. music/sound (sabda) Source: Rigpawiki
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Sitatapatra (Dukkar/གདུགས་དཀར)

Sitatapatra emerged from the crown of Shakyamuni Buddha's head. The Buddha announced her role to "cut asunder completely all malignant demons, to cut asunder all the spells of others...to turn aside all enemies and dangers and hatred."
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Siṃhamukha (Senge Dongma/སེང་གདོང)

The lion faced dakini. It is believed the reciting her mantras and prayer will dispel magic, spirits and obstacles. Mantra: ཨཿཀཿསཿམཿརཿཙཿཤཿདཿརཿསཿམཿརཿཡཿཕཊཿ
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Five Dhyani Buddhas

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Eight great bodhisattvas

Bodhisattva are someone who has aroused Bodhichitta(Wishing to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all beings). 1. Manjushri(འཇམ་དཔལ་) - Wisdom 2. Avalokiteshvara(སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་) - Compassion 3. Vajrapani(ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་) - Power 4. Maitreya(བྱམས་པ་མགོན་པོ་) - Love/Future Buddha 5. Kshitigarbha(ས་ཡི་སྙིང་པོ་) - Richness and fertility of the land 6. Akashagarbha(ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ་) - Perfect ability to purify transgressions 7. Sarvanivaranavishkambhin(སྒྲིབ་པ་རྣམ་སེལ་) - Purifies wrong-doing and obstructions 8. Samantabhadra(ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་) - Displays special expertise in making offerings and prayers of aspiration
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Vajravarahi (Dorje Pakmo/རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕག་མོ)

Vajravarahi the root of all emanations of dakinis. This dakini is of high status, considered to be a Female Buddha. Mantra OM VAJRA BEROTZANIYE HUM HUM PHAT SOHA
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