A Yamari (གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད ''shin je she'' in Tibetan) is a

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or meditation deity of the

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method (father) classification. The Word यमारि ''yamāri'' in Sanskrit means ''

Yama Yama (Devanagari: यम) or Yamarāja (यमराज), is a deity of death, dharma, the south direction, and the underworld who predominantly features in Hindu and Buddhist religion, belonging to an early stratum of Rigvedic Hindu deities ...

's Enemy''MW Sanskrit Digital Dictionary v1.5 Beta There are three types of Yamari: *

Krishna Yamari Krishna (; sa, कृष्ण ) is a major deity in Hinduism. He is worshipped as the eighth avatar of Vishnu and also as the Supreme god in his own right. He is the god of protection, compassion, tenderness, and love; and is one o ...

(''shin je she nag'' in Tibetan) * Rakta Yamari (''shin je she mar'' in Tibetan and ‘the Red Enemy of Death’ in English) *

Yamantaka Yamāntaka ( sa, यमान्तक Yamāntaka) or Vajrabhairava (; ; ko, 대위덕명왕 ''Daewideok-myeongwang''; ja, 大威徳明王 ''Daiitoku-myōō''; mn, Эрлэгийн Жаргагчи ''Erlig-jin Jarghagchi'') is the "destroyer of ...

(གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད ''gshin rje gshed'' in Tibetan) sometimes referred to as

Vajrabhairava Yamāntaka ( sa, यमान्तक Yamāntaka) or Vajrabhairava (; ; ko, 대위덕명왕 ''Daewideok-myeongwang''; ja, 大威徳明王 ''Daiitoku-myōō''; mn, Эрлэгийн Жаргагчи ''Erlig-jin Jarghagchi'') is the "destroyer of ...

(རྡོ་རྗེ་འཇིགས་བྱེད། ''dor je jig je'' in Tibetan)

References

* Chandra, Lokesh & Fredrick W. Bunce, ''The Tibetan Iconography of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and other Deities: A Unique Pantheon'', New Delhi, D.K. Printworld, 2002, 98. Buddhist deities Buddhist tantras Yidams {{Tibetan-Buddhism-stub