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"With vajra armour, a garland of jewel ornaments and the beautiful heavenly banner - fluttering, illuminated in the middle of a hundred thousand Wealth Bestowers; homage to Vaishravana, chief among the protectors of the Teaching." (Nyingma liturgical verse).

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84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha

Toh 555. The Sutra of Golden Light. Chapter 6. (Contents List).

Toh 416. The Tantra of the Protector, the Arising of Secret Accomplishments. Vajramahākālakrodhanātharahasya­siddhibhavatantra. མགོན་པོ་གསང་བ་དངོས་གྲུབ་བྱུང་བའི་རྒྱུད། mgon po gsang ba dngos grub byung ba'i rgyud. 58 Pages. (25 Chapter).

Toh 498. Nilamabara Vajrapani Tantra. The Tantra of the Blue-Clad Blessed Vajrapāṇi. Bhagavannīlāmbara­dhara­vajra­pāṇi­tantra. བཅོམ་ལྡན་འདས་ཕྱག་ན་རྡོ་རྗེ་གོས་སྔོན་པོ་ཅན་གྱི་རྒྱུད། bcom ldan ’das phyag na rdo rje gos sngon po can gyi rgyud. 19 Pages. (Chapter 3. Vaishravana & the Eight Horsemen).

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bod brgyud nang bstan lha tshogs chen mo bzhugs so, 2001. ISBN 7-5420-0816-1. Pages 1027-1038.

A Song to Delight Vaiśravaṇa, Praise of the Great King Vaiśravaṇa by Jamyang Khyentse Chökyi Lodrö

Iconography Transformed: A few Notes on the God Vaishravana by Sarah-Allegra Schonberger. Approaching Religion. Volume 6. No.2. 2016.

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