[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Buddhist Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha) › [Buddhist Sanskrit literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit) › [Protective spells and dhāraṇī-sūtras](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani) › [Sarvatathāgatoṣṇīṣasitātapatrā Aparājitā Mahāpratyaṅgirā Vidyārājñī](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra) › [འཕགས་པ་དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱི་གཙུག་ཏོར་ནས་བྱུང་བ་གདུགས་དཀར་པོ་ཅན་ཞེས་བྱ་བ་གཞན་གྱིས་མི་ཐུབ་མ་ཕྱིར་ཟློག་པའི་རིག་སྔགས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་མོ་ཆེན་མོའོ](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo) › [Sitatapatra Born from the Ushnisha of All Tathagatas](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo~en-84000) › intro.8 # འཕགས་པ་ད་བཞན་གཤགས་པ་ཐམས་ཅད་ཀྱ་གཙག་ཏར་ནས་བྱང་བ་གདགས་དཀར་པ་ཅན་ཞས་བྱ་བ་གཞན་གྱས་མ་ཐབ་མ་ཕྱར་ཟླག་པའ་རག་སྔགས་ཀྱ་རྒྱལ་མ་ཆན་མའ intro.8 Sitātapatrā Born from the Uṣṇīṣa of All Tathāgatas intro.8 - **Language:** English ### [intro.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo~en-84000.intro.8) The texts on Sitātapatrā preserved in the Kangyur do not provide a detailed iconography of the goddess, saying only that she has a thousand heads, a thousand arms, a thousand legs, and a trillion eyes. This form of Sitātapatrā is still popular in the contemporary Buddhist tradition, but she is also depicted in a number of other forms in the various practice manuals associated with the canonical texts. This includes forms of the goddess with one face and two arms (), three faces and six arms (), and five faces and eight arms ().⁵ - [Previous: intro.7](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo~en-84000.intro.7) - [Next: intro.9](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo~en-84000.intro.9) - [Up: intro](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo~en-84000.intro) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo~en-84000.intro.8](https://indike.org/pramana/in.bauddha.sanskrit.dharani.sitatapatra*bo~en-84000.intro.8) · Pramāṇa