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Amithba - le boddhisattva ' de la lumière infinie '. Amithba représente le Buddha primordial et individu-existant. Ce dieu a été soutenu d'un lotus et s'étire sans cesse hors de l'aide au faible et à l'hésitation. Amithba est devenu une voie populaire de salut pour beaucoup de bouddhistes parce qu'il était l'archétype de la compassion, doux et facile à vivre.
Amrita - Signification: ' non-mort '. En mythologie indoue, Amrita est l'eau de la vie. Amrita est un écho des pratiques qui antedate l'invasion d'Aryan.
Mythe: Amrita a été récupéré au barattage de l'océan quand Rahu, le démon, réussi à obtenir un SIP, forçant Vishnu à découper sa tête avant qu'il ait gagné l'impregnability complet. La tête du démon, un morceau divisé d'immortalité, a été adoptée en tant que talisman, un protecteur des influences mauvaises, qui ont rempli une fonction semblable aux gargoyles.
Ananta - le serpent du monde en mythologie indoue. Pendant la nuit de Brahma, Vishnu dort sur des enroulements de serpent prodigious, Sesha, également connu sous le nom d'Ananta, ' l'endless dont les mille têtes montent au-dessus du deity comme un écran. Cette scène et tout dans lui, les deities? le divan serpentin, l'eau sur lequel le serpent se trouve, sont toutes les manifestations de l'essence primitive.
Asuras - l'équivalent de l'Ahura persan Mazdah, Asura est un mot qui associe ' à l'esprit suprême ou devine '. Cependant, quelque part au cours de l'histoire le mot est devenu un pour dénoter des démons ou les anti-dieux, faisant un complet U-tournent. Des dieux et Asuras ont été toujours verrouillés en conflit, unique côté défaisant complètement l'autre, pour, si ce devaient se produire, le côté survivant deviendraient redondants.
Avalokitesvara - l'épitomé bouddhiste de la pitié et de la compassion. Quand Avalokitesvara a atteint à la conscience suprême, il a choisi de ne pas passer dans le nirvana, mais voué à rester derrière comme succor du affligé. Il a été rempli de compassion, karuna, pour les douleurs de la vie, qu'il a recherché à apporter à l'éclaircissement. Il a été représenté pendant qu'un jeune homme beau tenant une fleur de lotus dans sa main qui a porté une image d'Amithaba dans ses cheveux. Son consort femelle était Tara, également connu sous le nom de Pandaravasini, ' plaqué dans le blanc '.
Brahma - Brahma est considéré comme un de la triade indoue, de Vishnu, du créateur, de Shiva, du destroyer et de Brahma. Brahma, cependant, a détruit ses puissances à ces deux et à la mère divine. Brahma a quatre têtes. Il a initialement eu cinq, mais une tête a été détruite par oeil de Siva le troisième pendant qu'il parlait irrespectueux. Dans des ses quatre mains, Brahma tient un scepter, un rosary, un arc, une alms-cuvette, et le manuscrit du Rig-Veda.
Buddha - Gautama Siddhartha, prince indien du nord qui est devenu Buddha, éclairé, requis ses palpeurs pour s'isoler worldly de la vie. Les robes longues de safran portées par les prêtres bouddhistes est un symbole qu'elles ont retiré de la société qu'elles avaient choisi de laisser à ses travaux durs. La couleur du vêtement était celle qui a condamné des hommes ou ceux avant que l'exécution ait porté. Ces prêtres ont recherché l'évasion finale du bondage karmic, Nirvana. Réaliser le nirvana un doit éliminer le moi et détruire l'aversion et désirer. Buddha a reçu l'éclaircissement sous un figuier.
Devi - Mahadevi. Devi était le consort de Shiva et a été adoré sous beaucoup de formes correspondant à ses deux aspects, bienveillances et fierceness. Une partie d'elle des formes inclut:
| Bonnes Formes | Formes Féroces |
| Uma, ' lumière ' | Kali, ' le noir ' |
| Gauri, ' jaune ou brillant ' | Durga, ' inaccessible ' |
| Parvati, ' le mountaineer ' | Chandi, ' le féroce ' |
| Jaganmata ' la mère du monde ' |
Mythe: L'apparition de Devi était comme Durga, une belle bonne de guerrier de tonalité jaune assise sur un tigre. Mahisha, un monstre-démon tyrannous, a eu par la force invincible saisie par austérités terribles. L'arrivée de Durga était miraculeuse, un tri de pouvoir jaillissant vers le haut de la colère des dieux. Mahisha était un buffle colossal de l'eau dont tous les dieux avaient peur, parce que ni Vishnu ni Shiva ne pourrait régner contre lui. Seulement la force de tous les dieux combinés a semblé capable de conquérir le taureau. Par conséquent, c'était que le Durga dix-huit-armé est sorti pour donner la bataille. Un combat titanic s'est ensuivi et Durga plus d'est venu le taureau et son arme, pas aussi facile une tâche. Ensuite, on avait accordé l'ascendancy à Devi, elle est devenu ' Tout-all-comprehending '.
- Mythe De Fin
Comme Kali, la déesse est vraiment craintive.
Dharma - une sauge indoue antique qui a épousé 13 de filles de Daksha. Dharma, dans la société indoue, est la doctrine des fonctions et des droits de chaque caste dans la société idéale, et en tant que tels le miroir de toute l'action morale.
Ganesa - le fils éléphant-dirigé de Shiva enlève des obstacles et la sagesse de vouchsafes. Ganesa est propitiated au début de n'importe quelle entreprise importante et est appelé à l'engagement des livres. Il apparaît souvent sur les couvertures des étudiants indiens? cahiers. Ganes est un homme pot-gonflé court avec quatre mains et a one-tusked la tête d'éléphant, parfois montant sur un rat ou étant occupé par on. Dans une main Ganesa tient un interpréteur de commandes interactif, dans des autres un discus, dans le tiers un club, et dans le quart une eau-lilly.
Mythe: Parvathi est par le passé entré dans le bain et a demandé à son fils de garder la porte. Le fils tellement loyalement. Ganesa, cependant, également gardé la porte contre Shiva, qui, dans la fureur, décapitée le garçon. Ainsi été affligé a Parvathi quand elle a appris de la décapitation que Shiva est sorti pour trouver une autre tête pour s'adapter sur le garçon. Il a trouvé une tête d'éléphant et s'est adapté la première fois sur la tête de Ganesa.
Gommatesvara - Bahubali, également connu sous le nom de Gommatesvara était le fils de Rishbha, le dernier sauveur de Jain. une statue 56 1/2-foot de lui a été érigée chez Sravana Belgola et a été découverte dans 983. Bahubali était le frère de Bharaba. La légende raconte une lutte entre les frères pour l'empire avec des résultats dans le disillusionment de Bahubali à l'heure actuelle de la victoire. Ceci a eu comme conséquence lui remettant son royaume terrestre à Bharatha et se retirant à la forêt pour faire le penance.
Hanuman - le chef de singe et le fils de Vayu est également connu comme Bajarangbali. Il était un allié de mémoire vive dans son bataille épique avec Ravana. Sa nature divine l'a permis la capacité de changer dans la forme et la taille et d'avoir la capacité de combattre. En raison des services Hanuman fourni à lui, la mémoire vive a accordé à Hanuman le cadeau de la vie et de la jeunesse perpétuelles.
Hayagriva - Signification: ' ' cheval-étranglé '. Un démon qui a volé les scriptures de la bouche de Brahma quand il était en sommeil et a été détruit par Vishnu comme matsya-avatara, l'incarnation de poissons.
Indra - roi des dieux dans l'installation Veda. Indra a l'autorité au-dessus du firmament, il peut distribuer des coups de foudre et la pluie au sien . Indra gagné au-dessus de la position par slaying Virtra, d'Ahi, le serpent de la sécheresse. Son coup de foudre a dédoublé l'estomac d'Ahi, libérant les eaux, libérant l'aube, créant la vie. La présence d'Indra a été signalée par un arc-en-ciel dans le ciel Indra a été défaite par Ravana, un signe du déclin de sa puissance.
Jataka - les ' naissance-histoires - de ce qui là sont 547 - soyez des contes indiqués par le Buddha de ses naissances précédentes comme oiseau, animal, homme. Plusieurs de ces contes sont trouvés dans la collection indienne du Panchatantra. D'autres ont provenance outside South and Central Asia. They hold autobiographical and set a moral precedent for a Buddhist.
Kama - Like Eros, Kama rose at the creation of the universe. Desire was the prima germ of the universal mind. The Hindu god of love is no cupid, instead of the fleshy image that is commonly portrayed by Western artists, Kama was an incredibly adroit adroit youth, the husband of Rati, the bees, and fires arrows tipped with flowers whose scent announces the sweet, irresistible attack of love.
Lakshmi - The lotus goddess of Hindu myth, wife of Vishnu and symbol of his creative energy. Lakshmi is characterized by the lotus, the vegetable symbol beneath her and the lotus flower in her left hand. Lakshmi is associated as Laka-mata, 'the mother of the world'. Lotus-eyed, Lotus-colored and decked with lotus garlands she stands as the symbol of maternal benevolence, her full breasts are a constant source of succor and delight.
Mahavira - The last Jaina savior. Mahavira was a contemporary of Buddha and died about 500 BC. His childhood was one that in a sense 'proved' he was a savior as it was filled with miracles. His name was earned when he overcame a serpent that threatened his friends. His name means 'great hero'. Asserting traditional Jaina belief, Mahavira taught that the individual soul , the transmigrating jiva, was free to make its own escape through a sustained act of self-renunciation. Ahimsa, 'non-violence' was carried to an extreme in Jainism.
Maitreya - Also known as Metteyya, is the name of the Buddha yet to come. This is in the tradition of the Buddhist belief that there will be a series of Enlightened ones that will be before and after Buddha. Maitrey is regarded as living in the sensual apex of the Universe.
Manjusri - A boddhisattva who like Avalokitesvara receives worship as a divinity in Mahayana Buddhism. In Nepal and Tibet Manjusri has been granted the rank of a Buddha. He is a popular deity and is looked upon as the father of civilization in the Himalayas.
Manu - He is the Hindu Noah.
Myth: One day, in the water Manu found a tiny fish that begged him to spare its life in return for his. Manu asked how the fish could possibly save him from something and found out that there was an imminent flood, which would carry away all living things. Therefore, Manu put the fish in a pot, but it grew so rapidly that he was forced to put it in a tank, a lake and finally the sea itself. Thereupon the fish predicted the flood and asked Manu to prepare his ship against danger, which Manu did. When the waters rose and Manu floated on their surface, the fist towed the boat with a cable fastened to its horn. The journey was long and took them above the submerged peaks of the Himalayas. Lonely, Manu prayed for offspring and was granted a wife. Manu and his wife were the progenitors of mankind.
Mara - In Indian mythology Kama and Mara are the two sides of existence for life. They are the optimist and the pessimist: the desire for life, the fear of death - the tasty bait, the keen hook. These two powers rule the world of the unawakened, those beguiled by maya. Mara, the master of illusion, became in Buddhist myth, the evil one. Threatened by Enlightenment, the powerful demon committed his entire strength to the capture of Gautama's mind. Though defeated and shamed, Mara is said to linger in the world, hoping to seize the souls of the dead.
Milinda - The Milindapanha (Questions of Milinda), records the conversion of Menander to Buddhism. Menander, as Milinda, acquired legendary stature with the Buddhists . His ashes were entombed in a stupa and his name was connected with the origin of the statue of the emerald Buddha, which Menander's teacher, Magesana made with special powers.
Muchalinda - A gigantic serpent-genie who dwelt in the roots of a Bo tree under which Buddha gained his enlightenment. In a state of bliss the meditating sage did not perceive the gathering of a frightful tempest, and so Muchalinda devoutly encircled the body of Buddha seven times before spreading his broad hood above as an umbrella. Once the storm had passe, the snake monarch unwound his coils and transformed into a young man, and with hands joined together respectfully, he bowed to the world savior.
Nagas - The serpent-genii figures in the mythologies of Hinduism, Jainism , and Buddhism. They are serpent-like water gods whose friendly natures contrast with the savior vs. serpent symbolism of West Asia. A Naga was pictured as having a human face, with the tail of a serpent and the expanded neck of a cobra.
Parsva - Parsva was the 23rd Jaina thrithankara. He is reputed to have lived in the eighth century BC, about 84,000 years after the death of his saintly predecessor, Neminatha. Parsva was an incarnation Indra. His father, King Asvena, had been informed that his son would either be a world leader or a world savior.
Pushan - Frequently mentioned in the Rig Veda this Hindu deity acquired distinctly defined characters only in later times. 'The nourisher', the supplier of cattle and possessions, Pushan carries and ox-goad and is drawn by goats. Because of his toothlessness, worshippers offer gruel and cooked food of ground material.
Rishaba - Son of semi-divine parents, Rishaba was the founder of Jainism. He had one-hundred sons and left his throne to his eldest, Bharata. He then withdrew into meditation and lived with such austerity that only a bag of skin and some bones were found at his death. The Jaina doctrine of the karmic bondage of the soul, a profound sense of contamination of the daily experience, meant that those who sought to liberate themselves, had to detach themselves completely from the outside world.
Rishis - Hindu seers. These divinely inspired sages composed Vedic hymns in which symbolic language conveys the inner mysteries and the deepest philosophies of Aryan belief. They were the forerunners and founders of the Brahmins, their poetry extending the religious horizons of the invading pastoralists. In a state of Samadhi, they experienced the visions of the cosmic unity of the universe, an inward revelation that is indicated in the born sons of Brahma. The oldest list includes Gotama, Bharadwaja, Viswamitra, Jamad-agni, Vasishtha, Kasyapa and Atri.
Saraswati - The Ganges, Jamuna and Saraswati are the sacred rivers of Hindu mythology. The Saraswati river acted as the boundary of Brahmavartta. Saraswati was personified as the river goddess who blessed them with purified water. Later Saraswati became Vak, the goddess of river-like streaming speech.
Shiva - The name of Shiva is unknown, but another name for this fearful deity is Rudra, 'The Howler' that is common and occurs almost equally as frequently. In appearance Shiva is fair, has four arms, four faces and three eyes. The third eye posses a fiery glance from which all things created shrink. It is sometimes represented by three horizontal marks, often worn by his devotees. He is the arch ascetic, the Divine Yogi, who meditates alone on the Himalayas. Shiva's vehicle is the Nandi, a milk-white bull which is conspicuous outside the front entrances to the Gods temples. Nandi is the guardian of four legged creatures.
Sumeru - World mountain of Hindu mythology. The vertical axis of the universe, Mount Sumeru is like a Babylonian ziggurat, providing homes to a pantheon of Gods.
Surya - The god of the sun was one of the three chief deities of the Rig Veda, the other two being Indra and Agni. The most distinct of several human gods, Surya is described as short, with a burnished copper body, riding through the sky in a chariot drawn by seven horses and driven by Aruna, dawn, his wife. Worship of Surya can be found in Bihar and Tamil Nadu where is benevolence is invoked for the healing of the sick.
Tara - Avalokittesvara's spouse. She is the sakti of bodhisattva, the energy of his essence. It was she who aroused him to bring into existence on this earth Gautama Siddhartha. The two wives, the Chinese and Nepalese princesses of Sron-btsan-sgam-po, the first Buddhist king of Tibet are said to be reincarnations of Tara. The worship of Tara is widespread in Tibet.
Varasattva - He is one of the adamanite substance and the wielder of the thunderbolt. This Buddha is one of the six dhyani-buddhas, 'meditation buddhas' and, in Tibet, is recognized as the primeval Buddha from which all the others issued forth. He is regarded as the protector of the devotee that seeks enlightenment.
Varuna - He is one of the oldest deities, he is uncreate. He is the universal encompasser, a personification of the all-investing sky and the source of sustenance and all created things. Varuna ruled the sky at night, whose star-like presence was the cause of wonder of many men.
Vasishtha - This Hindu sage was the possessor of a sacred cow, called Nandini, which had the power to give him anything he might desire. The enmity between Vasishtha and Viswamitra (who tried to steal Nandini) is the central theme of several ancient texts.
Vayu - Literally 'air, wind'. Vayu is often linked with Indra, whose chariot he shares. Later scriptures speak of Vayu in conflict with Vishnu.
Vishnu - As preserver and restorer, Vishnu is a very popular deity. Vishnu is the all-pervading deity whose powers have been manifested to the world in his 10 principal avatars, 'descents', in which a part of his divine essence was incarnated in a human or supernatural form. Avatars have come to the world only when there was need to correct some evil influence. Vishnu is represented pictorially as a handsome youth of a dark blue color and dressed like an ancient king. In his four hands, he carries a conch shell, a discus, a club and a lotus flower. His vehicle is the Garuda, the sun bird. Garuda is the enemy of all serpents.
Viswamitra - One of the seven great Rishis, he was of royal lineage, the son of a kshatriya with the qualities of a Brahmin.
Myth: Once Viswamitra ordered the Saraswati to bring Vasishtha, his arch rival, to him for execution. The river however, floated Vasishtha out of his reach. Thereupon, the enraged rich turned the river into blood.
Yama - The Hindu god of death, he is the restrainer and is originally conceived as the king of the departed spirits who lived in the upper sky. He and his sister Yami were the first mortals. Yama was green, armed with a noose as well as a club he rode on a buffalo.
Yuga - In Hindu cosmology the age of the world.