Item: Yamari, Rakta (Buddhist Deity) - Heruka

Rakta Yamari (Tibetan: shin je she mar. English: the Red Enemy of Death): an emanation of the meditational deity and bodhisattva of wisdom Manjushri.

"...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." ([#59] Rakta Yamari. lha tshogs rnams kyi mngon rtogs rjes gnang gi cho ga dang bcas pa'i tho yig mun sel sgron me. Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557 [P783]).

Jeff Watt 7-2014