Buddhist Deity: Manjushri, Arapachana Five Deity
Arapachana (Iconographic Forms)Subjects, Topics & Types:
- Description (below)
- White
- Orange
- Sword Upraised
- Teaching Gesture
- Masterworks
- Confusions
- Others...
Video: Arapachana Manjushri with Five Deities
Five Figures:
- Arapachana Manjushri
- Keshini
- Upakeshini
- Jaliniprabha
- Chandraprabha
The form of Manjushri as Vagishvara Arapachana has the four surrounding figures of Keshini, Upakeshini, Jaliniprabha, and Chandraprabha. This is also known as the Arapachana Five Deity Mandala. Both five deity configurations have the same four named secondary figures, two male and two female. (See a mandala example of the two forms of the Arapachana Five Deity configuration).
Siddhakavira: Chapter 3. Forty-Eighth Mantra:
Name: Vagishvara with Kesini, Upakesini, Jaliniprabha & Chandraprabha
Appearance: white, one face, two arms, holding a sword & book (examples)
Heart: wheel, 8 spokes
Forty-Ninth Mantra:
Name: Vagishvara
Appearance: (previous)
Fiftieth Mantra:
Name: Vagishvara (with deities)
Appearance: (previous)
Heart: wheel, 16 spokes
Fifty-First Mantra:
Name: Vagishvara
Appearance: (previous) like a blazing fire
Lineage: Vajradhara, Manjushri, Gyalpo Rabsal Dawa, Lobpon Pajor Kyang, Drubchen Kunga Nyingpo, Lobpon Sherab Kyang, Shiwa'i Nyingpo, Getsen Shenyen, Dewa'i Dorje, Shraddhakaravarmin, Lochen Rinchen Zangpo, Dragteng Yontan Tsultrim, Mallo Lodro Dragpa, Sachen Kunga Nyingpo, Lobpon Sonam Tsemo, Jestun Dragpa Gyaltsen, Choje Jamyang Sapan, Drogon Chogyal Pagpa, Ganpa Rinchen Gyaltsen, Kyiton Dragpa GYaltsen, Dolpo Sherab Gyaltsen, Khenchen Jangchub Sengge, Sharchen Yeshe Gyaltsen, Ngorchen Kunga ZangpoGyaltsab Kunga Wangchug, Yongdzin Konchog Pelwa, Je Konchog Lhundrub, Lhachog Sengge, [etc.]. (Gyu De Kun Tu Lineages, Folio 41-42).
Jeff Watt 8-2022 [updated 3-2024]
Gyu de kun tu. Volume 3, folio 47.
