Item: Mahakala (Buddhist Protector) - Panjarnata (Lord of the Pavilion)

Great Black One, Lord of the Pavilion (Tibetan: gur gyi gon po. Sanskrit: Panjarnata Mahakala). This form of Panjarnata in solitary aspect is the special protector of the Panjarnata Tantra, an exclusive explanatory tantra to the Two-Section Hevajra Tantra. The tradition of Solitary Panjarnata is passed down through the Margapala lineage of the Sakya Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

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"The Great Vajra Mahakala, blazing, with one face, two hands, in the right a curved knife and left a skullcup filled with blood, held above and below the heart. Held across the middle of the two arms is the 'Gandhi of Emanation;' with three eyes, bared fangs, yellow hair flowing upward, a crown of five dry human skulls and a necklace of fifty fresh, blood-dripping. [He is] adorned with six bone ornaments and snakes, with a lower garment of tiger skin, flowing with pennants and streamers of various silks; dwarfish and thick, in a posture standing above a corpse." (Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557).

Jeff Watt, 4-2001

Numbered:
1. Panjarnata Mahakala
2. Hevajra
3. Gayadhara
4. Drogmi Lotsawa
5. Khon Konchog Gyalpo
6. Sachen Kung Nyingpo
7. Sakya Pandita
8. Chogyal Pagpa
9. Sita Shadbhuja Mahakala
10. Shmashana Adhipati
11. Shri Devi