page_title: Marici (Buddhism)
section_title: Iconography
hierarchical_section_title: Marici (Buddhism) / Iconography
caption_attribution_description: English: Japanese illustration of the goddess Mārīcī
context_page_description: Mārīcī, is a deva, as well as a bodhisattva associated with light and the Sun. She is among the lists one of the guardian devas, specifically the Sixteen Devas, the Twenty Devas and the Twenty-Four Devas. In Taoism and Chinese folk religion, Doumu is considered to be synonymous with Mārīcī within Chinese Esoteric Buddhism.
context_section_description: Mārīcī is depicted in several ways. Some examples included:
  As a man or woman on an open lotus, the lotus itself sometimes perched on the back of seven sows.
  As a male deity riding a boar, often having two or six arms.
  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.
  As having three faces and six or eight arms.
  In Tibetan literature, the Bari Gyatsa contains five different descriptions of Mārīcī:
  Oḍḍiyāna Mārīcī
  Kalpa Ukta Mārīcī
  Kalpa Ukta Vidhinā Sita Mārīcī
  Aśokakāntā Mārīcī
  Oḍḍiyāna Krama Mārīcī
  The Drub Tab Gyatso has six descriptions:
  White with five faces and ten hands
  Yellow with three faces and eight hands
  Yellow with three faces and eight hands
  Dharmadhātu Īśvarī, red with six faces and twelve hands
  Picumī, yellow with three faces and eight hands
  Red with three faces and twelve hands
  The Nartang Gyatsa and Rinjung of Taranata describe one form.
  Both the Vajravali and Mitra Gyatsa describe a mandala of Mārīcī that includes twenty-five surrounding figures.
  This is not an exhaustive list, and many more depictions of Mārīcī exist throughout the Buddhist world.
caption: Japanese illustration of Mārīcī, holding a heavenly fan with swastika
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