Five Sisters of Long Life 長壽五天女
Five Sisters of Long Life (Tib. ཚེ་རིང་མཆེད་ལྔ་ , Wyl. tshe ring mched lnga) are guardians who pledged to protect the teachings. They are:-
- Tashi Tseringma, (Tib. བཀྲ་ཤིས་ཚེ་རིང་མ་ , Wyl. bkra shis tshe ring ma)
- Ting gi Shyal Zangma, (Tib. མཐིང་གི་ཞལ་བཟང་མ་ , Wyl. mthing gi zhal bzang ma)
- Chöpen Drin Zangma, (Tib. ཅོད་པན་མགྲིན་བཟང་མ་ , Wyl. cod pan mgrin bzang ma)
- Miyo Lang Zangma, (Tib. མི་གཡོ་གླང་བཟང་མ་ , Wyl. mi g.yo glang bzang ma) and
- Talkar Dro Zangma, (Tib. གཏལ་དཀར་འགྲོ་བཟང་མ་ , Wyl. gtal dkar ‘gro bzang ma).
In some traditions they are depicted as riding on animals[1] but in the Longchen Nyingtikterma tradition they are depicted in standing posture holding various accoutrements. [2]
- Tashi Tseringma – riding a snow lion
- Ting gi Shyal Zangma – riding a wild ass
- Chöpen Drin Zangma – riding a stag
- Miyo Lang Zangma – riding a tiger
- Talkar Dro Zangma - riding a dragon
Longchen Nyingtik terma tradition
- Tashi Tseringma - holding an arrow and a dice
- Ting gi Shyal Zangma - holding a divination mirror
- Chöpen Drin Zangma - holding a treasure vase
- Miyo Lang Zangma - holding a tray of wealth and riches
- Talkar Dro Zangma - holding a silver ladle of milk
References
- ↑ * http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/tseringma/index.html The Five Long-life Sisters.
- ↑ * klong chen snying thig rtsa pod, Vol. 2, klong chen snying gi thig le las/ bka' srung sman btsun mched lnga'i phrin las dpag bsam yongs 'du - pp.749-755/756.
