Yamari
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A Yamari (གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད shin je she in Tibetan) is a yidam or meditation deity of the Anuttara Yoga Tantra method (father) classification. The Word यमारि yamāri in Sanskrit means Yama's Enemy[1] There are three types of Yamari:
- Krishna Yamari (shin je she nag in Tibetan)
- Rakta Yamari (shin je she mar in Tibetan and ‘the Red Enemy of Death’ in English)
- Yamantaka (གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད gshin rje gshed in Tibetan) sometimes referred to as Vajrabhairava (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.
- ^ MW Sanskrit Digital Dictionary v1.5 Beta
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