Yama Dharmaraja has a fearsome buffalo head, a body blue in colour, four arms and two legs. He holds a skull stick, sword, length of chain and a writhing snake. The head and body are adorned with a five skull crown, a snake necklace and bracelets, a garland of freshly severed heads and other wrathful vestments. Standing atop a prone buffalo he is surrounded by orange and red flames of pristine awareness fire.
Yama Dharmaraja is a Tantric Buddhist - wisdom deity - protector of the Method Class (father) of Anuttaryoga Tantra specifically used by those engaged in the practices of the Vajrabhairava Tantra. Both Vajrabhairava and Yama Dharmaraja are wrathful emanations of Manjushri - a bodhisattva in Mahayana literature but a tantric deity equal to a Buddha in Vajrayana Buddhism.
This practice is found in all of the Sarma Schools (Sakya, Kagyu, Gelug, etc.) however the Gelugpa Tradition hold Yama Dharmaraja in a special regard as one of the three main Gelug religious protectors along with the Shadbhuja form of Mahakala and Vaishravana Riding a Lion.
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编号:Har2076
中文名称:四臂地狱主
英文名称:Yama Dharmaraja - Four Armed
标签:护法
面数:1
主脸脸型:牛
脸色:蓝
主脸眼数:3
头饰:骷髅冠
手数:4
手持物:铁链 套索 龙（蛇索） 剑 短橛（骷髅棒）
翅膀:否
腿:2
踩踏物:牛
姿态:跨姿
身色:蓝
特殊身饰:蛇 人头环 虎（豹）皮
双身:否
