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The Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities (Tib. ཞི་ཁྲོ་རིགས་བརྒྱ་, Wyl. zhi khro rigs brgya) include the forty-two peaceful deities and fifty-eight wrathful deities. They feature in several practices and cycles of teachings, most notably the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the Guhyagarbha Tantra, which is the primary source describing this mandala.

Forty-two Peaceful Deities

The forty-two peaceful deities (Tib. shyiwé lha shyé nyi; Wyl. zhi ba'i lha zhe gnyis) belong to the mandala of the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities, and feature in several practices and cycles of teachings, most notably the Tibetan Book of the Dead and the Guhyagarbha Tantra. The eminate from the heart at the cardinal directions, with east at the top. They represent natural quiescence purity. They are:

Dharmakaya (2)

Samantabadra

Samantabhadra (Skt.; Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ་, Kuntuzangpo; Wyl. kun tu bzang po) — In the Dzogchen teachings, our true nature, that state of the Ground, is given the name the 'Primordial Buddha'. He is depicted as a buddha, sky-blue in colour, sitting in the vast expanse of space, and encircled by an aura of rainbow light. He is completely naked, meaning unstained by any trace of concept. His name, Kuntuzangpo in Tibetan, Samantabhadra in Sanskrit, means ‘always good', ‘always well’ or ‘unchanging goodness.’ What this signifies is that unchanging goodness, or fundamental goodness, is our ultimate nature.

Samantabadri

Samantabhadri (Tib. ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་མོ་, Kuntu Zangmo) is the female consort of Samantabhadra.

Sambhogakaya (34)

Five Families (5 male, 5 female consorts)

Five buddha families (Skt. pañcakula; Wyl. rigs lnga, Tib. rik nga) —

1. buddha family (Skt. tathāgatakula; Wyl. de bzhin gshegs pa'i rigs)
2. vajra family (Skt. vajrakula; Wyl. rdo rje'i rigs)
3. ratna or jewel family (Skt. ratnakula)
4. padma or lotus family (Skt. padmakula; Wyl. pad ma'i rigs)
5. karma or action family (Skt. karmakula)

Five Buddha Families Table
both	family	buddha	vajra	ratna	padma	karma
	direction	centre	east	south	west	north
	colour	white	blue	yellow	red	green
	family symbol	eight-spoked wheel	vajra	jewel	lotus	double vajra or sword
male	masculine buddha	Vairochana	Vajrasattva-Akshobhya	Ratnasambhava	Amitabha	Amoghasiddhi
	implements	buddha hands	R:dorje L:bell	R counch L:bell	R:dorje L:bell	R:double dorje L:bell
	pristine wisdom cognition	dharmadhatu	mirror-like	equality	discernment	all-accomplishing
	poison	delusion or ignorance	anger	pride	desire	jealousy
female	feminine buddha	Akasadhatvisvari	Buddhalochana or Mamaki	Mamaki or Lochana	Pandaravasini	Samayatara
	implements	buddha hands	R:dorje L:bell	R counch L:bell	R:dorje L:bell	R:double dorje L:bell
	skhanda natural purity	form	consciousness	feeling	perception	formations
	element	space	water	earth	fire	air

The Bodhisattvas (8 male, 8 female)

Eight Great Bodhisattvas, or 'Eight Close Sons' (Skt. aṣṭa utaputra; Tib. ཉེ་བའི་སྲས་བརྒྱད་, Wyl. nye ba'i sras brgyad) — the main bodhisattvas in the retinue of Buddha Shakyamuni:

Bodhisattvas
Family	Male Bodhisattvas					Female Bodhisattvas
	Position	Male name	Personification	Implements	Natural Purity Consciousnesses Class	Position	Female name	Offering Goddess	Consciousness Object	Implements
Vajra	left	Maitreya, བྱམས་པ་མགོན་པོ]	activity, embodies love	R: mudra L:malla	auditory	behind	Pūṣpā; Tib. Metokma Wyl. me tog ma	flowers	past thoughts	R:air L:knife
	right	Kshitigarbha, ས་ཡི་སྙིང་པོ] or སའི་སྙིང་པོ་	merit, increases the richness and fertility of the land	R:feather L:bell	visual	front	Lāsyā; Tib. Gekpama; Wyl. sgeg pa ma	beauty	visual	R:dharma wheel L:pinch
Ratna	left	Akashagarbha, ནམ་མཁའི་སྙིང་པོ]	blessings, has the perfect ability to purify transgressions	R:sword L:bell	gustatoryx	behind	Dhupā; Tib. Dukpöma; Wyl.bdug spos ma	incense	fragrance	R:vase L:mudra
	light	Samantabhadra, ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ	aspirations, displays special expertise in making offerings and prayers	R:bell L:earth touching	olfactory	front	Mālyā; Tib. Trengwama; Wyl. phreng ba ma	garlands	intermediate thought	long malla
Padma	left	Mañjushri, འཇམ་དཔལ་ or འཇམ་དཔལ་དབྱངས་	embodies wisdom	R:sword L:mudra	mental	behind	(Alokā; Tib. Marmema or Nangselma; Wyl. mar me ma/snang gsal ma)	light	future thoughts	R:dorje L:bell
	right	Avalokiteshvara, སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་	embodies compassion	R:flower L:caunch	tactile	front	Gītā; Tib. Luma; Wyl. glu ma	song	sound	lute
Karma	left	Vajrapani, ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་	represents power	R:dorje L:bell	defiled	behind	Nirtī; Garma; Wyl. gar ma	dance	taste	plate
	right	Sarvanivaranavishkambhin, སྒྲིབ་པ་རྣམ་སེལ་	qualities, purifies wrong-doing and obstructions	R:book L:dorje	all ground	front	.Gandhā; Tib. Drichabma; Wyl. dri chab ma	perfume	present thought	knife

The Four Male Gate Keepers

The four male gatekeepers (Wyl. sgo ba yab bzhi), who are counted among the forty-two peaceful deities, are:

1. Achala, guarding the east gate (or Vijaya, or Mahabala?)
2. Yamantaka, guarding the south gate
3. Hayagriva, guarding the west gate
4. Amritakundali, guarding the north gate

The Four Female Gate Keepers

1. Ankusha (Skt. Aṅkuśā; Wyl. lcags kyu ma or rta gdong ma) also called 'Horse Face' or 'Iron Hook', guarding the east gate and in union with Vijaya (or Achala?)
2. Pasha (Skt. Pāśā; Wyl. zhags pa ma or phag gdong ma) also called 'Sow Face' or 'the Noose', guarding the south gate and in union with Yamantaka
3. Shrinkhala (Skt. Śriṅkhalā; Wyl. lcags sgrog ma or seng gdong ma) also called 'Lion Face' or 'Iron Chain', guarding the west gate and in union with Hayagriva
4. Ghanta (Skt. Ghaṇtā; Wyl. dril bu ma or spyang gdong ma) also called 'Wolf Face' or 'the Bell', guarding the north gate and in union with Amritakundali.

These deities are also described as the deities of the three seats.

Nirmāṇakāya (6)

The Six Munis

The Six Munis (Skt.; Tib. Tubpa Druk; Tib. ཐུབ་པ་དྲུག་, Wyl. thub pa drug) are the supreme nirmanakaya buddhas for each of the six classes of beings. They are:

1. Indra Kaushika (Skt.; Tib. དབང་པོ་བརྒྱ་བྱིན་, Wangpo Gyajin; Wyl. dbang po brgya byin) for the god realms, pride
2. Vemachitra (Skt. Vemacitra; Tib. ཐགས་བཟང་རིས་, Taksangri; Wyl. thags bzang ris) for the demi-gods or asura realms. jealousy
3. Shakyamuni (Tib. ཤཱཀྱ་ཐབ་པ་, Wyl. shAkya thub pa) for the human realm, desire
4. Shravasingha or Dhruvasiṃha (Skt.; Tib. སེང་གེ་རབ་བརྟན་, Sengé Rabten; Wyl. seng ge rab brtan) for the animal realm, stupidity
5. Jvālamukhadeva (Skt.; Tib. ཁ་འབར་དེ་བ་, Khabar Dewa; Wyl. kha ‘bar de ba) for the preta realms, miserliness
6. Dharmarāja (Skt.; Tib. ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་, Chökyi Gyalpo; Wyl. chos kyi rgyal po) for the hell realms, anger

Six classes of beings (Skt. ṣaḍgati; Wyl. rigs drug) — the major modes of existence within samsara, each caused and dominated by a particular destructive emotion: