Colours: Deities That Are Yellow
There are many figures and deities that are yellow. They can generally be divided into two groups, those figures that are predominantly known from their iconography to be yellow in colour and secondly, those figures that have secondary forms, minor forms or manifestations that are yellow.
Shakyamuni Buddha is described as being golden in colour, or yellow like the reflection from a mountain of gold. For that reason Shakyamuni should at least be mentioned in any discussion of yellow deities.
The colour yellow represents the activity and desire for increase according to the system of the Four Activities and four colours. The colour orange is sometimes conflated and exchanged for the colour yellow. The two should be thought of as almost the same depending on the specific context.