Hayagriva, Heruka (Tibetan: tam drin, drag tung. English: the Horse-necked One, Blood-drinker): from the Lama Gongdu Cycle of Revealed Treasure (Tibetan: ter ma) teachings of the Nyingma tradition.
Fearsome and wrathful in appearance, red in colour, with three faces and six hands, three horse heads adorn the crown of the central face. He embraces the consort with the first pair of hands while holding a golden vajra scepter and a white blood filled skull. The two remaining outstretched right hands hold a katvanga staff and a blue snake. The two left hands hold a bell and a length of blue chain. The dark-red two-armed consort holds a skullcup and a trident. Standing on two prone naga forms, a sun disc and multi-coloured lotus seat, they are surrounded by the brightly burning orange flames of pristine awareness fire.
In the Nyingma (Old) Tradition the term Heruka (blood drinker) generally refers to any male meditational deity that is wrathful in appearance.
A Heruka deity typically has three faces, six arms, eight legs, a consort, and sometimes a pair of wings. A small number of these deities can be readily identified by a unique attribute, such as the horse head of Hayagriva or the kila (purba) peg of Vajrakila, and Yamari/Yamantaka standing atop a buffalo, while the remainder of deities are relatively difficult to identify. The most common heruka figures are the Five Buddha Heruka of the Guhyagarbha Tantra, the Five Wrathful Deities of the Between Sate (Bardo) based more or less on the Guhyagarbha, and the Eight Pronouncement Heruka. The most common individual forms found in art are Vajrakila, Hayagriva and Chemchog Heruka , etc.)
There is a more complex form of the Nyingma Mahottara Heruka that has nine stacked faces and eighteen arms and an even more complex form with twenty-one faces with forty-two arms.
From the Guhyagarbha Tantra there are five or six heruka deities which are also the main wrathful deities represented in the Bardo (Shitro) paintings.
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编号:Har1307
中文名称:马头明王（嘿噜嘎）
英文名称:Hayagriva - Heruka（from the Lama Gongdu Cycle）
标签:马头明王 八大法行（嘿噜嘎）
面数:3
主脸脸型:忿怒相
脸色:蓝 红 白
主脸眼数:3
头饰:马头 骷髅冠
手数:6
手持物:铁链 天杖 颅碗 龙（蛇索） 铃 杵
翅膀:否
腿:4
踩踏物:龙族（人面龙身）
姿态:跨姿
身色:红
特殊身饰:象皮 蛇 人头环 人皮 虎（豹）皮
双身:是
佛母名称:佛母
佛母面数:1
佛母眼数:3
佛母手数:2
佛母手持物:颅碗
佛母身色:红
佛母姿态:单腿抱
