财宝天王，名朗梯色，又称毗沙门天王，多闻天王，是毗沙门天王变化身之一，他是八地菩萨示现的护法身，也是北方多宝佛的化现，作为财神护法，以出世间护法身份之示现。他身居金刚手菩萨的净土——北方柳叶宫，与金刚手菩萨有颇深的渊源，属于金刚手菩萨的部属。其具有大福德，专门保护众生的财富，是世上一切财富的守护者，是掌管财宝富贵、护持佛法的善神。常供奉财宝天王、且常行慈悲善行之一切众生，藉由财宝天王之大力加持，可事业顺利，鸿图大展，求财满愿，快速相应也可消灾解厄、求取财富、增进福祉。

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Vaishravana, leader of the Yaksha race, is a worldly guardian worshiped as both a protector and benefactor (wealth deity). He lives on the north side of the lower slopes of mount Meru in the Heaven of the Four Great Kings. As the leader of the Four Direction Guardians, he like the others, swore an oath of protection before the buddha Shakyamuni. The stories and iconography of the Four Guardian Kings arise originally with the early Buddhist sutras and become fully developed in the later Mahayana sutras. The Kings are common to all schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Paintings of the Four Kings are found as murals at the entrance way into temples or in sets depicting Shakyamuni Buddha and the Sixteen Great Arhats. They are rarely if ever painted alone or individually.

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