Heruka (Sanskrit; Tibetan: Wylie: khrag 'thung) is the name of a category of wrathful deities, enlightened beings in Vajrayana Buddhism that adopt a fierce countenance to benefit sentient beings.

Heruka (Sanskrit; Tib. khrag 'thung), is the name of a category of wrathful deities, enlightened beings in Vajrayana Buddhism that adopt a fierce countenance to benefit sentient beings. In China and Japan, it was named as Wisdom King. Herukas represent the embodiment of indivisible bliss and emptiness.

Heruka is Buddha’s mind of compassion manifested as form. Only Buddhas have the ability to display their minds as form. We sentient beings are unable to do this because our mind and body are different natures, but a Buddha’s mind and body are the same nature and so wherever their mind goes their body goes too.

Heruka, in the Vajrayana Buddhism of Tibet and Central Asia, a fierce protective deity. He is an emanation of the buddha Aksobhya, whose figure is incorporated in his headdress. He is depicted as blue in colour with two arms, which hold a vajra (thunderbolt) and a …

The heruka (Tib. ཧེ་རུ་ཀ་ or ཁྲག་འཐུང་, Wyl. he ru ka or khrag 'thung)— another name for wrathful deity and can refer to Hevajra or Chakrasamvara. In the Nyingma tradition the term is often used to refer specifically to Chemchok Heruka or Yangdak.

2024年10月24日 · Heruka (हेरुक) is one of the most popular deities of the Buddhist pantheon and a regular Tantra, the Heruka Tantra, is devoted to his worship. Heruka is worshipped singly as well as in yab-yum.

Along with the Hevajra Tantra, it is one of the earliest and most influential of the Yoginī Tantras, a genre of tantric Buddhist scripture that emphasizes female deities, particularly the often fiercely depicted Yoginīs and Ḍākinīs.

In the Sarma (New) Traditions of Sakya, Kagyu, Jonang and others, the term Heruka typically refers to any complex Anuttarayoga male-meditational deity, peaceful or wrathful, that appears in a simplified form with one face, two arms and a consort.

The Eight Heruka are believed to have been discovered by eight Indian teachers known as the Eight Vidyadhara. The were found in a stupa at the Cool Grove Charnel Ground (Sitavana) some several miles from the modern day location of Bodhgaya. There are …

Mahottara (chem chog) is the principal heruka of the wrathful sambhogakaya deities of the Nyingma tradition. He is the central wrathful deity of the One Hundred Peaceful & Wrathful Deities of the Guhyagarbha Tantra.

In the Chakrasamvara cycle of Tantras Vajrasattva is specifically taught in the Abhidhanottara Tantra, 25th chapter, and is known as Heruka Vajrasattva. "...the bhagavan Vajrasattva hri Heruka, with a body white in colour, one face, two hands holding a …

Chakrasamvara (Heruka) is a mother tantra practice of anuttarayoga tantra. It provides the most detail about the methods for generating the four levels of blissful awareness of voidness within the central energy-channel, enabling access to the subtlest level of mind, clear light.

2016年10月10日 · Fall Festival 2016: Gen-la Khyenrab explains the symbolism of Heruka's appearance, the real meaning of his name, and how to relate to him at the beginning of our practice.

The Daka is Buddha Heruka, who in his most wrathful form is Mahashri Heruka or Mahottara. Yamantaka is also a very powerful Highest Yoga Heruka of Vairochana’s Buddha Family.

2024年10月20日 · Heruka in Buddhism is a meditation deity symbolizing transformation and enlightenment, primarily visualized during practice. In Tibetan Buddhism, Heruka also signifies a category of wrathful deities who possess protective and transformative qualities.

In the Chakrasamvara cycle of Tantras Vajrasattva is specifically taught in the Abhidhanottara Tantra, 25th chapter, and is known as Heruka Vajrasattva. This form of the deity embraces the consort with the two hands across the back.

In Vajrayana Buddhism, heruka is a designation referred to male wrathful deities, often associated with the sexual practices of the Highest Yoga Tantras, and specifically mother tantras such as Chakrasamvara and Hevajra in the Sakya, Kagyu, and Geluk traditions.

Heruka (Skt.; Tib., khrag. ʾthung, ‘Blood Drinker’). A class of wrathful deity in Tibetan Buddhism who presides over Tantric ritual. According to the texts, the Heruka serves not to ‘protect’ the ritual, but is rather a meditational ‘tool’ by which the yogin, through identification with the Heruka, attacks his own egotistical grasping.

Heruka(Sanskrit; Tibetan: Wylie: khrag 'thung) is the name of a category of wrathful deities, enlightened beings in Vajrayana Buddhism that adopt a fierce countenance to benefit sentient beings.

Shri Hevajra is a principal meditational deity of the Anuttarayoga classification in Buddhist Tantra. According to the Sakya system Hevajra belongs to the sub-class of 'non-dual' tantra. The Kagyu system classifies Hevajra as 'Wisdom-mother' tantra.