Yama Dharmaraja: Tantric Protector Deity (Updated)
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Yama Dharmaraja, an emanation of Manjushri, is a Tantric Buddhist - wisdom deity - associated specifically with the Vajrabhairava Tantra. His function is that of a protector to aid those practitioners that have taken up the meditational deity practices of Vajrabhairava. The practices of both of these deities are found in all of the Sarma Traditions of Tibetan Buddhism (Sakya, Kagyu, Gelug, etc.), however the Gelugpa School holds Yama Dharmaraja in a special regard as one of their three principal religious protectors (along with the Shadbhuja Mahakala and Vaishravana).
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