Female Deities: List of female Buddhas and Bodhisattvas

Mahamaya

Yidam of Highest Yoga Tantra

We have little information on this deity.

Her name is the same as that of the mother of the historical Shakyamuni Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama - it means 'Great Illusion.' This was a main practice of the Shangpa Kagyu school.

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