Female Deities: List of female Buddhas and Bodhisattvas

Marici

Yidam - goddess of the sun

Marici is a red-coloured female yidam associated with the sun and with dawn.

She has three faces (including a sow's face); her eight arms holding various implements, and she rides a throne/chariot drawn by nine pigs.

Travellers traditionally use her mantra as protection.