One of the five self-born buddhas in Vajrayana buddhism, he never achieved the status of his opposite, AMITÃBHA. He is the lord of an eastern paradise: his earthly manifestations were the buddha KANAKAMUNI and the buddha-to-be VAJRAPANI, and his principal characteristics, recognised throughout the Far East, are stillness, calm and unperturbability. His consort was LOCANA, his family the Dvesa. He rode an elephant and his symbol was the thunderbolt. His dedicated element was air and his sense-perception touch. His colour is blue. His dedicated syllable: 'ye' or ‘hum’. His sense-organ is the skin and his body location the heart. Aka: ASHUKU (Japan, where his colour is also blue and he faces east); A-CH'U (China); MI-BSKYOD-PA or MI-'KHRUGS-PA (‘The unagitated’: Tibet); and ULU KODELUGCI (‘Without movement’: Mongolia)
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