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In Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhism, Marici is a deva or bodhisattva associated with light and the sun. She is known as ''Molizhitian ''(摩利支天)'' or Molizhitian Pusa'' (摩利支天菩萨) in China and in Japan and in Tibetan as 'Odzer Canma, "Woman Endowed with Rays of Light" (). She is one of the 20 (or 24) Celestials (二十/二十四諸天). In Taoism and Chinese folk religion, Marici is known under the epithet of the Lady of Dipper Mother () or Doumu, a name sometimes used by Buddhists. ==Iconography== Marici is usually depicted in one of the following ways: * As a beautiful woman on an open lotus, the lotus itself sometimes perched on the back of seven sows. * As a ferocious wrathful deity perched on the back of a boar. * Riding a fiery chariot pulled by seven savage boars or sows. * As a multi-armed woman with a different weapon in each hand standing or sitting on the back of a boar. She has been depicted with one, three, five or six faces and two, six, eight, ten or twelve arms; three eyes; in her many-faced manifestations one of her faces is that of a sow. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marici (Buddhism)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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