Samantabhadri

Description of Samantabhadri

Samantabhadri is a female Buddha and a Dakini from the Vajrayana Buddhist school. She is Samantabhadra’s consort and female counterpart and is revered as the ‘Primordial Buddha’ by certain Tibetan Buddhists. Samantabhadri is white, symbolizing the wisdom part of the mind, as opposed to her consort, who is sky blue, signifying limitlessness and formlessness. She, like her consort, seems ‘bare’ and unadorned, expressing the essence of thought. She is normally depicted with her partner in the Yab-yum union, but she is often depicted alone, seated in a ‘lotus pose with her hands in a meditation position in her lap. Samantabhadri represents the element of Buddhahood that has never experienced illusion or conceptual thinking.

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The Buddhist pantheon comprises hundreds of Gods and Goddesses. They are intended to illustrate the multiple aspects of enlightenment, including its wrathful and furious sides, as well as its peaceful and beneficial aspects. In Mahayana Buddhism, gods, goddesses, and other spiritual beings play a much bigger role than in Theravada Buddhism. They symbolize the energies, forces, and entities that surround and fill human life. They also mirror the human spirit's deeper depths, reflecting attributes that can be awakened through spiritual practice. Voluptuous tree spirits, maternal nurturers, elevated knowledge figures, benevolent healers, potent protectors, cosmic mothers of liberation, and dancing female Buddhas are all part of the pantheon. Childbirth, agriculture, fortune, longevity, art, music, knowledge, love, magic, and occult rituals are all overseen by gods, goddesses, and other spiritual beings. Some of them protect against diseases, snakebites, demons, curses, untimely death, and all other fatal dangers. There are also gods, goddesses, and other spiritual beings that aid practitioners in their quest for knowledge, mental cleansing, higher rebirth, and complete spiritual enlightenment.