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The thirty-two deities of Akṣobhyavajra


The Thirty-Two Deities of Akṣobhya Vajra are blue in color, with a crown of Akṣobhya. They have three faces and six arms. The root face is blue, the right face is white, and the left face is red. Their right hands hold a wrathful vajra, wheel, and lotus, and their left hands hold a bell, jewel, and sword. Their hair is in a topknot. He is adorned with the thirty-two excellent signs and the eighty excellent minor marks. His consort is blue Sparśavajrā, who has the crown of Akṣobhya. She is blue, white and red. She has three faces and six arms. Her right hand holds a vajra, wheel and lotus, and her left hand holds a bell, jewel, and sword. Her hair is tied in half, and she is very charming. She has a smiling face. Both are adorned with the eight precious ornaments. The upper body is draped with a garland of divine cloth, and the lower body is clad in a skirt of divine silk. The father sits in vajra posture, surrounded by the four tathāgatas, the eight female tathāgatas, the eight great close sons, and the ten wrathful ones.