Buddhist Deity: Medicine Buddha (Eight)

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Medicine Buddha Iconography

Eight Medicine Buddhas & Prajnaparamita:
1. Bhaishajyaguru, Vaidurya Prabha Raja (blue)

Inner Circle of Eight Figures:
2. Ashokattamshri (pink)
3. Suvarnabhadra Vimala (white)
4. Abhijnaraja (pink)
5. Shakyamuni (golden)
6. Suparakirtita Namashri (yellow)
7. Nirghosharaja
8. Dharmakirti Sagara
9. Prajnaparamita (yellow)

Jeff Watt 4-2024

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1) Good Sign, body golden in color, right hand in the Protection Giving Gesture, left hand in the Meditation Gesture.
2) King of Tune, body golden in color, right hand in the Giving Gesture, left in the Meditation Gesture.
3) Stainless Good Gold, body golden in color, right hand in Teaching Gesture, left in Meditation Gesture.
4) Sorrowless, body pink in color, hands in Meditation Gesture.
5) Ocean of the Spreader of Dharma, body white-red in colour, hands in the Teaching Gesture.
6) King of Knowledge, body red in colour, right hand in Giving Gesture, left in Meditation Gesture;
7) Vaidurya Praha, body royal blue in colour, right hand in Giving Gesture, left in Meditation Gesture;
8) Shakyamuni, body yellow in colour, right hand in Earth-touching Gesture, left in Meditation Gesture.

(Translated from the Tibetan by Ven. Nima Sangpo and Ven. Ngawang Samten Chophel at Puruwala in February of 1979).