Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Chattrosnia" | Buddhist | God Buddhist |
Deities name "Chattrosnisa (with an umbrella)" | Buddhist | God. One of eight USNISA deities appar ently connected with the guardian sky deities or dikpalas. Color: white. Attribute: parasol.... |
Deity name "Chos-Skyon" | Buddhist | Tutelary guardian deity Buddhist / Tibet |
God name "Chos-Skyon (protector)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Tutelary guardian deity. One of a group of gods of fearsome appearance who wear royal apparel. Rides a white elephant. Color: blue. Attributes: knife and noose.... |
Goddess name "Chunda" | Buddhist | Goddess of happiness Buddhist |
Goddess name "Citrasena" | Buddhist | Goddess Buddhist / Mahayana |
Goddess name "Citrasena (having a bright spear)" | Buddhist / Mahayana | Goddess. The SAKTI of BUDDHAKAPALA.... |
Goddess name "Cittavasita" | Buddhist | Minor goddess Buddhist |
Goddess name "Cittavasita (controd of thinking)" | Buddhist | Minor goddess. One of a group of twelve VASITAS personifying the disciplines of spiritual regeneration. Color: white. Attribute: staff.... |
Goddess name "Cunda" | Buddhist / Tibet | Goddess considered a deification of literature. Buddhist / Tibet |
Goddess name "Cunda" | Buddhist / eastern Bengal / Tibet | Goddess. An emanation of Vajrasattva or Vairocana. A female BODHISATTVA or buddha-designate. Also seen separately as a deification of literature, one of a group of twelve DHARANIS. She may stand upon a man. Color: white or green. Very large variety of attributes. Also Aryacunda.... |
"Da-Shi-Zhi" | Buddhist / China | One of Amitabha Buddha's two great female Bodhisattva companions in the Pure Land. Buddhist / China |
God name "Dadimunda" | Singhalese Buddhist / Sri Lanka | Tutelary god. An attendant on the god UPULVAN to whom he acted as treasurer. The guardian of Buddhism in Sri Lanka. His sacred animal is an elephant. Also Devata bandara.... |
God name "Daikokr" | Shinto / Japan | God of luck. One of seven gods of fortune in Shintoism and often linked with the god EBISU. Originally a god of kitchens, he became a deity concerned with happiness. He is depicted as a fat, well-to-do figure seated on two rice bales and carrying a sack on his back. He also holds a hammer in his right hand. In depictions there is often a mouse nibbling at one of the rice bales. Small gold icons of the god may be carried as talismans of wealth. According to tradition, when Daikoku's hammer is shaken, money falls out in great profusion. In western Japan he is also syncretized with the god of rice paddies, TA-NO-KAMI, and thus becomes the god of Agriculture and farmers. He may have developed from the Buddhist god MAHAKALA.... |
Spirit name "Dakini" | Buddhist | A female being, generally of volatile temperament, who acts as a muse for spiritual practice. Buddhist |
Deity name "Danaparamita" | Buddhist | Philosophical deity. Buddhist |
Deities name "Danaparamita" | Buddhist | Philosophical deity. One of twelve PARAMITA deities and a spiritual offspring of RATNASAMBHAVA. Color: reddish white. Attributes: an ear of rice and a banner with pearl.... |
Deity name "Daoji" | Buddhist | A Buddhist monk who became a minor Taoist deity |