Namgyalma / Ushnisha Vijaya

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Ushnisha-Vijaya is a peaceful deity, known as the emanation of Vairocana Buddha. She is also known as the Mother of All The Buddhas. She is essentially a manifestation of emptiness acting a a Bodhisattva as other deities of Buddhism. She is able to bestow long-life one beings not merely for selfish purpose but for helping all others towards enlightenment. She is also a purification deity as well and invoked in the presence of the dead and also invoked as a means of settling disputes.

She is white in color as an autumn moon and has three faces, white, yellow and blue respectively each with three very large eyes. She has eight hands. The first right hand holds a Vishva Vajra, miniature Amitabha Budha image, an arrow respectively and her fourth right hand has an eye in her palm and is diplaying supreme generosity or varad mudra. Her first left hand holds a vajra lasso, displaying bestowing protection posture, a bow respectively and the fourth hand is in meditative equipoise holding an auspicious nectar vase. She is seated in vajra posture.

Ushnisha-Vijaya is often accompanied by deities Amitayus and White Tara; together known as the Three Long-life Deities of Tantric Buddhism. Namgyalma is practiced by all the schools of Tibetan Buddhism.