Buddhist Deity: Prajnaparamita Iconography

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Subjects, Topics & Types:
- Description (below)
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- White (Vajrapanjara Tantra)
- White/Yellow (?) (Chaturpita and Samputa Tantras)
- Yellow #1
- Yellow #2
- Yellow, Four Armed
- Prajnaparamita #3
- Unidentified Forms
- Medicine Buddha & Prajnaparamita Mandalas
- Confusions: Chaturbhuja Lokeshvara
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Video: Prajnaparamita: Mother of the Buddhas

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Four Forms from the Bari Gyatsa:

[40] Prajnaparamita.
Prajnaparamita, white [with] one face. The two hands are performing the Dharma teaching gesture, and held from the palms and extending out are a white lotus to the right and a red to the left, and above each a Prajnaparamita book. [Having] the hair tied with some falling loosely. [Having] the same ornaments, garments and sitting posture [as previous female figures].

[41] Prajnaparamita.
Prajnaparamita, white [with] one face. The two hands hold two lotuses and [two] Prajnaparamita books above them. [Having] the same ornaments, garments and [buddha] family. Seated in the vajrasattva asana [posture].

[42] Prajnaparamita.
Prajnaparamita, yellow, with one face. The two hands are performing the Dharma teaching gesture. The left [hand] holds a blue lotus, and a [Prajna] paramita book above it. [Having] the same ornaments and garments and [buddha] family. Seated in the vajrasana [posture].

[43] Prajnaparamita.
[Having] two hands, each holding an utpala with [two Prajna] paramita books above.

Drub Tab Gyatso:
78. Prajnaparamita (1), White with One Face and Two Hands
79. Prajnaparamita (2), Yellow with One Face and Two Hands
80. Prajnaparamita (3), Yellow with One Face and Two Hands
81. Prajnaparamita (4), Yellow with One Face and Two Hands
82. Prajnaparamita (5), Yellow with One Face and Four Hands

Rinjung Gyatsa/Lhantab:
- White (Two Arms)
- Yellow (Four Arms)

Nartang Gyatsa:
34. Yellow (Two Arms)

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(The images below are only a selection of examples from the links above).