Usnisavijaya
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Uṣṇīṣavijayā ("Victorious One with Ushnisha"; Tibetan: གཙུག་གཏོར་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་མ།, Wylie: gtsug tor rnam par rgyal ma, THL: Tsuktor Nampar Gyelma; Mongolian: Бизьяа, Намжилмаа, Жүгдэрнамжилмаа, "Crested Ultimate Tara") is a buddha of longevity in Buddhism. She wears an image of Vairocana in her headdress. With Amitayus and Sitatara, she constitutes the three buddhas of long life. She is one of the more well-known Buddhist divinities in Nepal, Tibet, and Mongolia.
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Uṣṇīṣavijayā in a stupa, 15th-century painting, Rubin Museum of Art
See also
- Uṣṇīṣa Vijaya Dhāraṇī Sūtra, which is the Mantra of Usnisavijaya, a very important Dharani in Chinese Buddhism such that a Chinese Emperor (唐代宗 776 AD) and a Japanese Emperor (清和天皇 860 AD ) had both enforced all Buddhist monasteries within their countries to facilitate it's practice, after it had been believed to have brought rain to end two events of droughts in history.
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- Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet, an exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art (fully available online as PDF), which contains material on Usnisavijaya (see index)
- Images of Uṣṇīṣavijayā - HimalayanArt.org
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