Yamāntaka (Sanskrit: यमान्तक Yamāntaka) or Vajrabhairava (Tibetan: གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་, རྡོ་རྗེ་འཇིགས་བྱེད།, Wylie: gshin rje gshed; rdo rje 'jigs byed; simplified Chinese: 大威德金刚; traditional Chinese: 大威德金剛; pinyin: Dà Wēidé Jīngāng; Korean: 대위덕명왕 Daewideok-myeongwang; Japanese: 大威徳明王 Daiitoku-myōō; Mongolian: Эрлэгийн Жаргагчи Erlig-jin …

Death itself is conquered by this towering, wrathful deity, Yamantaka. Conquering death, and the cycle of samsaric suffering, is at the very heart of Buddhism. As the “death destroyer” Yamantaka symbolizes this aspiration, and his meditational deity practice is designed to achieve that goal.

Yamantaka is the most wrathful form of Manjushri. He is the embodiment of total wrath. His anger is so terrific that it may consume even himself. He crushes many evil spirits under his feet. His name is comprised of Yama (the lord of Death) and Antaka (destroyer of Death).

In Vajrayana Buddhism, Vajrabhairava, also known as Yamantaka, is (1) a wrathful, buffalo-headed meditational deity (Tib: yi-dam) of the Highest Yoga Tantra class and/or (2) a dharma protector.

Yamantaka is a Tantric Buddhist deity most commonly found as a secondary figure in a mandala configuration or as an attendant deity to Manjushri. As an attendant he is typically wrathful in appearance, blue in colour, with one face and two hands.

Yamantaka (Skt. Yamāntaka; T. gshin rje gshed གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་; C. Yanmandejia/Daweide ming-wang 焰曼德迦/大威德明王) is an important tantric deity. He is a wrathful form of Manjushri, representing the wisdom that subdues death.

Yamantaka is an essential figure in Tibetan Buddhism, with an iconic formation that conveys power, complexity, and deep symbolism. As the "Conqueror of Death," Yamantaka is a deity who personifies the profound Tantric teachings and leads followers on a …

Yamantaka is the name of a system of three sets of deities: Vajrabhairava is one of them Krishna Yamari (that’s Black Yamari, gShin-rje gshed nag-po) Rakta Yamari (or Red Yamari, gShin-rje gshed dmar-po). Yamantaka is the name for all three, but in the Gelug tradition, the main one that we practice is Vajrabhairava.

Yamantaka is a violent aspect of the Bodhisattva Manjushri, who assumes this form to vanquish Yama, the god of death. By defeating Yama, the cycle of rebirths (samsara) that prevents enlightenment is broken.

Yamantaka (Skt. Yamāntaka; Tib. གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་, Wyl. gshin rje gshed) — literally 'The Destroyer of Yama, the Lord of Death ', is a wrathful form of Manjushri. In the Sarma tradition, the Yamantaka Tantras are classified as the second category of Father Tantra, known as the Anger class.