Yamantaka

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Yamantaka Vajrabhairava, British Museum.
Vajrabhairava, the Japanese Daiitoku-Myōō (大威德明王).

Yamāntaka (Sanskrit: यमान्तक Yamāntaka or Vajrabhairava Tibetan: གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་, རྡོ་རྗེ་འཇིགས་བྱེད།, Wylie: gshin rje gshed; rdo rje 'jigs byed,[1] Mongolian: Эрлэгийн Жаргагчи Erlig-jin Jarghagchi, Chinese: 焔曼徳迦; pinyin: Yàn màn dé jiā) is an iṣṭadevatā of the Anuttarayoga Tantra class popular within the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Yamāntaka is seen as a wrathful manifestation of Mañjuśrī, the bodhisattva of wisdom, and in other contexts functions as a dharmapala. Yamāntaka is the symbol to trample down and exceed Yama who is a king of the underworld.

In Vajrayana Buddhism of East Asia, Yamāntaka, Vajrabhairava or MahiSasaMvara (Chinese: 大威德金剛; pinyin: Dà Wēidé Jīngāng, Japanese: 大威徳明王 Daiitoku-myōō) is placed as one of the Five Wisdom Kings.[2] The figure of East Asian Buddhism is very different from the figure of Buddhism that was affected by tantrism. In esoteric teachings of Est Asia, it is the wrathful emanation of Mañjuśrī or Amitābha and is pictured with six faces, legs and arms holding various weapons while sitting on a water buffalo.

Etymology

Yamāntaka

Yamāntaka is a Sanskrit name that can be broken down into two primary elements: Yama, the name of the god of death; and antaka, or "terminator". Thus, Yamāntaka's name literally means "the terminator of death".[3] It means the Pariṇāmanā of going farther, not the Pariṇāmanā of return to this world. There is one more territory of death where it is used various names by religions and denominations. Within Buddhism, it may be called Pure Land.

Vajrabhairava

Vajrabhairava (Skt: वज्र भैरव vájra-bhairava) is also a Sanskrit name that can be broken down into two elements: vajra and bhairava "terrible, frightful".

MahiSasaMvara (Mahiṣasaṃvara)

MahiSasaMvara (Skt: महिष संवर MahiSa-saMvara) is also a Sanskrit name that can be broken down into two elements: mahiSa and saMvara "buffalo, stopping or keeping back".

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  1. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. ↑ Knowledge of the Buddhism: Five Wisdom Kings. Koya-san. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
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