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Video: Marichi, Goddess of the Dawn

Marichi Profile:
Gender: Female
Identity: Individual deity (not an emanation)
Tantra Identity: Mother of the Tatagata Family of Kriya Tantra
Tantra Class: Kriya Tantra
Source Text: Marichinama Dharani, Mayamarichijata Tantra
Function/activity: Removing obstacles
Metaphor: Light

Special Characteristics:
Appearance: Peaceful, semi-peaceful or wrathful
Colour: Yellow, red, black or white
Attributes: needle, thread
Consort: (none)
Mount: pig (sow), chariot drawn by pigs, horse

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Lotsawa House: Marichi Series

bod brgyud nang bstan lha tshogs chen mo bzhugs so, 2001. ISBN 7-5420-0816-1. Page 713-721.

84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha
Toh 564/988. The Incantation of Mārīcī. འོད་ཟེར་ཅན་གྱི་གཟུངས། · 'od zer can gyi gzungs. mārīcīdhāraṇī. (4 pages)

Toh 565. The Sovereign Practices Extracted from the Tantra of Māyāmārīcī. སྒྱུ་མའི་འོད་ཟེར་ཅན་འབྱུང་བའི་རྒྱུད་ལས་ཕྱུང་བའི་རྟོག་པའི་རྒྱལ་པོ། · sgyu ma'i 'od zer can 'byung ba'i rgyud las phyung ba'i rtog pa'i rgyal po.
māyāmārīcījātatantrād uddhṛtaḥ kalparājāḥ. (17 pages)

Toh 566. The Seven Hundred Practices of Mārīcī from the Tantras. རྒྱུད་འོད་ཟེར་ཅན་གྱི་རྟོག་པ་བརྒྱ་ཕྲག་བདུན་པ། · rgyud 'od zer can gyi rtog pa brgya phrag bdun pa. (42 pages)

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