Uṣṇīṣavijayā

Her three heads and eight arms are what the retrieved treatment gives and are what the record carries; the long-life trinity in which Tibetan practice groups her with Amitayus and White Tara is NOT in the retrieved sources and is not asserted. TYPE deity IS THE NEAREST CATEGORY THIS SCHEMA HAS AND THE TRADITION DOES NOT USE IT; lane 26 escalated this and nothing is decided here.

Domains

• longevity
• purification

Relations

• counted among the twenty one taras with: Tārā

Sources

• Reference treatment of Tara and the female deities of Tibetan Buddhism: many prominent female Buddhist deities found their place among the Twenty-One Taras, among them Sarasvati, Usnisavijaya, Sitatapatra, Kurukulla, Bhrkuti, Mahamayuri and Marici; Tara's peaceful forms are white or green and her angry forms red, yellow or blue, and she is a completely enlightened buddha who especially protects from the eight fears; Kurukulla is the four-armed red Tara, red-complexioned, seated on a red lotus, dancing, an archer holding an arrow and a bow of flowers with arrows of red lotus buds, whose bow relates to the subjugation of ego and the use of attraction in the service of the dharma; Usnisavijaya is a very popular goddess in Tibet, with three heads - the right yellow, the central white, the left black - and eight arms; Sitatapatra, the White Parasol, also called Usnisa-sitatapatra, is a protector described in the Surangama Sutra, with a thousand faces, arms and legs, her central faces white like her body, those to the right yellow and those to the left green; Marici has emerged in the tradition as an independent goddess with shrines dedicated to her.