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Sitatapatra: Vajra Ushnisha Sitatapatra (Tibetan: dor je tsug tor dug kar mo. English: The White Parasol One of the Vajra Crown Protuberance [of the Buddha]).
Sanskrit: Sitatapatra
Tibetan: Dug kar mo
According to the Sarma Schools (New Schools of Buddhism - Sakya, Kagyu, Jonang, Gelug, etc.) she belongs to the Kriya Classification of Tantra. From the variety of forms in which she appears, one faced, three faced, five faced and thousand faced, the one thousand faced Sitatapatra is the most popular and the form most commonly depicted in artistic representation, usually in painting and cast metal.
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Toh 590/985. The Invincible Spell of Uṣṇīṣasitātapatrā. གཙུག་ཏོར་གདུགས་དཀར་གཞན་གྱིས་མི་ཐུབ་པ་ཕྱིར་བཟློག་པའི་རིག་སྔགས། · gtsug tor gdugs dkar gzhan gyis mi thub pa phyir bzlog pa'i rig sngags. uṣṇīṣasitātapatrāparājitapratyaṅgirāmahāvidyārājñī.
Toh 591. The Incantation of the Supremely Accomplished Great Sitātapatrā Apārajitā. གདུགས་དཀར་གཞན་གྱིས་མི་ཐུབ་པ་ཕྱིར་བཟློག་པ་ཆེན་མོ་མཆོག་ཏུ་གྲུབ་པའི་གཟུངས། · gdugs dkar gzhan gyis mi thub pa phyir bzlog pa chen mo mchog tu grub pa'i gzungs. tathāgatoṣṇīṣasitātapatrāparājitamahāpratyaṅgirāparamasiddhānāmadhāraṇī.
Toh 592/986. The Incantation of Sitātapatrā Aparājitā. གདུགས་དཀར་གཞན་གྱིས་མི་ཐུབ་པའི་གཟུངས། · gdugs dkar gzhan gyis mi thub pa'i gzungs. uṣṇīṣasitātapatrāparājitādhāraṇī.
Toh 593. The Incantation of Sitātapatrā Aparājitā. གདུགས་དཀར་གཞན་གྱིས་མི་ཐུབ་པའི་གཟུངས། · gdugs dkar gzhan gyis mi thub pa'i gzungs. uṣṇīṣasitātapatrāparājitādhāraṇī.
