Himalayan Art Resources

Buddhist Deity: Amitayus Nine Deity Mandala

Amitayus Iconography

Subjects, Topics & Types:
- Mandala Description
- Jetari Lineage
- Kriya Tantra
- Tibet
- China
- Mongolia
- Mandala Plate
- Lotus Mandala: HAR #65215
- Masterworks
- Confusions: White Amitayus Nine Deity, Akshobhya Nine Deity
- Others...

Lineage of Teachers: Amitayus, Acharya Garbha, Jetari, Acharya Bodhi Bhadra, Acharya Samadhi Bhadra, Vajrasana the greater and younger, Bari Lotsawa Rinchen Drag, Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (1092-1158), etc.

Jeff Watt 3-2019

Source Texts:

Toh 674/849. The Aparimitāyurjñāna Sūtra. འཕགས་པ་ཚེ་དང་ཡེ་ཤེས་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ། ’phags pa tshe dang ye shes dpag tu med pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo. The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra of Aparimitāyur­jñāna. Aryāparimitāyurjñānanāmamahāyānasūtra. (This is the best known of the two versions of this sūtra in the Kangyur).

Toh 675. The Aparimitāyurjñāna Sūtra. འཕགས་པ་ཚེ་དང་ཡེ་ཤེས་དཔག་ཏུ་མེད་པ་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་ཐེག་པ་ཆེན་པོའི་མདོ། ’phags pa tshe dang ye shes dpag tu med pa zhes bya ba theg pa chen po’i mdo. The Noble Mahāyāna Sūtra of Aparimitāyur­jñāna. Āryāparimitāyurjñānanāmamahāyānasūtra.