Himalayan Art Resources

Buddhist Deity: Hevajra & Ten Wrathful Ones

Hevajra Main Page | Ten Wrathful Ones

The Ten (11) Great Wrathful Ones of the Outer Protection Mandala: Ushnisha Chakravartin (yellow), Yamantaka (blue), Humkara (blue), Prajnantaka (white), Padmantaka (red), Vighnantaka (blue), Achala (blue), Takkiraja (blue), Niladanda (Blue), Mahabala (blue), and Shumbharaja (blue).

The Ten (11) Great Wrathful Ones occupy the eight directions, center, zenith and nadir.

There are two systems for depicting the Ten Great Wrathful Ones in relation to Hevajra. The first system depicts all of the ten in Wrathful Appearance. The second system depicts four of the ten as semi-peaceful and semi-wrathful.

The images below are selected because the Ten Wrathful Ones can be easily identified among the secondary figures surrounding the central figure or mandala.

Jeff Watt 8-2018