Five Buddhas, 5 Wisdoms, 5 Mantras: Their Practices, Symbols, Seed Syllables, and Visualizations

Who are the five Great Conquering Buddhas and what are their five Wisdoms? Why are they so important in daily Mahayana Buddhist practice? How are they different from Shakyamuni Buddha, who was born into our world?
5 Buddhas CONTENTS
00:00-02:34 The “Mind Universe” of the Five Buddhas
02:35-03:38 Shakyamuni Taught the 5 Wisdoms to Remedy 5 Poisons
03:39-04:32 The “Map” or Mandala of the 5 Dhyani Buddhas
04:33-06:33 Which Wisdom Buddha to Practice for Each Poison
06:33-08:06 Mind mirrors the Cosmos: Exploring the 5 Buddha Purelands
08:07-09:42 The coordinates on the Mind Map: Symbolism, Color, Mantras
09:43-13:02 Buddha Nature and How to “Become a Buddha”
13:03-14:37 Center: VAIROCHANA - Practices, Symbols, Wisdom, Mantra
14:38-17:17 West: AMITABHA - Practices, Symbols, Wisdom, 4 Mantras
17:18-19:14 North: AMOGHASIDDHI - Practices, Symbols, Wisdom, Mantra
19:15-21:13 East: AKSHOBHYA - Practices, Symbols, Wisdom, Mantra
21:14-23:07 South: RATNASAMBHAVA - Practices, Symbols, Wisdom, Mantra
23:08 - Short Daily Practice of ALL FIVE BUDDHAS
In this presentation we'll introduce the important Five Buddha Mandala, and the symbolism and mantras of the five Buddhas. In other presentations we'll explore each Buddha family one-by-one, with their practices and mantras.
The Mantras are:
VAIROCHANA in the Center of the Mandala, seed syllable OM:
Om Vairochana Hum
AMITABHA in the West of the Mandala, seed syllable HRIH:
Om Amitabha Hrih
ALSO:
Om Ami Deva Hrih
Namo Amitabha Buddhaya
Namo Amitabhaya
AMOGHASIDDHI in the North of the Mandala, seed syllable AH
Om Amoghasiddhi Ah Hum
AKSHOBHYA in the East, seed syllable Hum
Om Akshobhya Hum
RATNASAMBHAVA in the South, seed syllable TRAM
Om Ratnasambhava Tram
The Five Buddhas are often called the Buddhas of the Five Wisdoms or the Buddhas of the Five Directions. This map-like language is not accidental.
We will explore each of the galaxies of the Five Wisdom Buddhas in future presentations but we'll summarize here for some helpful context and include their mantras.
Each Buddha family has a Father Buddha representing Compassion and a Mother Buddha representing Wisdom.
Each, have a mantra representing the essence of wisdom and a seed syllable. Each Buddha Family has a Pureland, which is the purity and manifestation of that wisdom and compassion in the pure, spacious mind of Buddha.
Each has a color representing an activity, a Wisdom that focuses on a poison, an aggregate or personality called a skandha, a direction on the mandala, and an emblematic symbol.
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Why are there many traditions? (I can only comment "briefly" since that's a massive topic -- but check out some of our many videos, as we've covered a lot of this topic.) Because Buddha is the doctor for all sentient beings (he used the metaphor of Buddha as Doctor, Dharma as Medicine, and Sangha as our Support Team) Buddha taught "skillful means" (upaya-kausalya) which is a central topic in many, many Mahayana Sutras, notably Lotus Sutra (which also has some of the most beautiful parables, which is also an illustration of skillful means.) If Buddha is the Doctor, the medicine he applies to the countless sentient beings is not one prescription (you can't cure every disease with one medicine). Depending on the poison, or ailment, we might have a different "cure". These poisons (kleshas) are roughly categorized as ten (but there are many more): 1 greed (lobha) 2 hate (dosa) 3 delusion (moha) 4 conceit (māna) 5 wrong views (micchāditthi) 6 doubt (vicikicchā) 7 torpor (thīnaṃ) 8 restlessness (uddhaccaṃ) 9 shamelessness (ahirikaṃ) 10 recklessness (anottappaṃ) Beyond the ten poisons, there are 10 billion or so people in our world alone. You can't cure ailments of all 10 billion people with one cure. So, we have in broad traditions, Theravadan, Mahayana, Vajrayana, Chan, Dzogchen, and then within these different teaching lineages. These are the "Dharma cures." Some of us are able to renounce suffering and take monastic vows. Some of us have to continue lay life. Some of us have doubts. Some of us respond to faith cures, some to hard medicines, some of us need urgent surgery (continuing the metaphor for simplicity). So, Buddha, as he explains in many chapters of Lotus Sutra and other Sutras taught skillful means. (upaya-kausalya) Some of us work best with our clinging minds in mindful meditation and stillness and might choose to "face the wall" (Chan, Zen). Some of us might work best with our monkey minds by generating detailed visualizations that help us navigate the complexities of our own attachments (Vajrayana, broadly). Some of us might have busy lives and prefer to honor and praise those who are the heroes (Bodhisattvas) of the great vehicle Mahayana -- and aspire to become Bodhisattva heroes ourselves. And within all of these you have different lineages. Dzogchen and Mahamudra, Kriya tantras, etc, etc . Every mind has different ailments and different needs and Buddha taught (by tradition 84,000 recorded teachings) (see the project of translation undertaken by 84000.co/) And that's my not-short yet (relatively) short answer. We try to cover all of these skillful means in our various videos and especially on our larger website buddhaweekly.com You'll find Vajrayana, Mahayana and Theravada topics threaded throughout, and a lot of considerating for skillful means. Hope that helps, although it's far from a complete answer. In kindness. BW.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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Yes, they are part of the 21 Taras in all the lineages. All are the essence of Tara, and if you practice Tara and the 21 Taras you are practicing them already. There are six White Taras, but in essence they are White Tara. There are five Yellow Taras who are the essence of Yellow Tara, just with different "focuses." There is also Principle White Tara and Principle Green Tara, who are Mother Wisdom partners of the Vairochana and Amoghasiddhi, respectively. (Not to confuse matters, but there are also the five Activity Dakinis of each direction, who are in essence aspects of the Mother of each direction (so Green Karma Dakini is a Dakini form of Green Tara), and so on (We have another video on the Five Activity Dakinis if you're interested here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/p4aygHdvaryleLc&t ). In other words to practice the five colors of Tara, probably the best approach, since it's lineage teaching, is to practice 21 Taras daily while visualizing them and chanting their mantras and praises (each has a mantra and praise, which we've coving in other videos and we have a playlist here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZonPiqCXaq2KlbM&pp=gAQBiAQB) We also have the 21 Praises in both English and Sanskrit. Hope that helps. In kindness, BW 🙏🙏🙏❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

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