Female Deities: List of female Buddhas and Bodhisattvas

Ushnisha-vijaya

Yidam - the long-life deity

Ushnisha-vijaya is a peaceful white deity and an emanation of Vairochana Buddha.

She has three faces, ten eyes and eight hands. Her right hands hold a lasso, bow, and vase with the nectar of immortality; her fourth right hand bears an eye in the palm and is in the mudra (posture) of generosity. Her left hands hold a miniature Buddha image, a double (crossed) Vajra, and an arrow; the fourth left hand is held in meditation posture in her lap.

Ushnisha-vijaya is often shown in a triumvirate with the other two principal long-life deities, red (male) Amitayus and White Tara.

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