Buddhist Deity: Yamari, Rakta (Iconography & Religious Context)

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Rakta Yamari Main Page

Subjects, Topics & Types:
- Description (below)
- Iconographic Forms (below)
- Outline Page
- Yamari, Krodharaja (Nyingma)
- Yamari Main Page
- Manjushri Main Page
- Forms of Manjushri: Context Page
- Confusions: Takkiraja, Hayagriva, Lha Chenpo
- Others...

Videos:
- Rakta Yamari: Introduction (Patreon Platform [19 minutes])
- Yama, Yamantaka, Yamari & Vajrabhairava
- Yamari Cycle of Tantras
- Rakta Yamari (HAR #87229)

Iconographic Forms:
- Single Form with Consort
- Five Deity Rakta Yamari
- Nine Deity Rakta Yamari
- Thirteen Deity Rakta Yamari
- Rakta Yamari (with corpse)
- Yamari, Krodharaja (Nyingma, Revealed Treasure)
- Others...

Sanskrit: Rakta Yamari Tibetan: Shin je she mar

Important Teachers: Shridhara, Virupa, Dombi Heruka.

Rakta Yamari can be found in a number of early sadhana collections such as the Drubtab Gyatsa, Drubtab Gyatso, Mitra Gyatsa and the Rinchen Trengwa.

[59] Rakta Yamari.
"Rakta Yamari, [with] one face and two hands. The right [hand] holds aloft a white stick marked with a fresh yellow human head. The left holds a blood filled skullcup embracing the consort of self light. The face has bared fangs and a curled tongue [and] three round red eyes. Having yellow hair bristling upwards [and] a lower garment of tiger skin. Adorned with the eight great nagas, a necklace of fifty fresh heads and a crown of five dry skulls. Standing on a red buffalo in a manner with the left leg extended." (The One Hundred Methods of Accomplishment by Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrub (1497-1557), bibliographic information. Based on the Bari Gyatsa of Bari Lotsawa Rinchen Drag, 1040-1112 [P3731]).

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(The images below are only a selection of examples from the links above).