Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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Goddess name "Vasantadevi" | Buddhist / Tibet | A goddess of spring |
Goddess name "Vasantadevi" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Goddess of spring. Particularly known from Tibet, where she appears in the retinue of SRIDEVI. Her animal is a mule. Attributes: cup and sword.... |
Goddess name "Vetali" | BuddhistLamaist / Tibet | Goddess of terrifying appearance. One of a group of gauri. Color: red. Attribute: a chain.... |
Deity name "Yama (2)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Guardian deity. One of a group of DHARMAPALA with terrible appearance and royal attire who guard the Dalai Lama. He stands upon a man. His colors may be red, blue, white or yellow. His attributes are most commonly a noose and staff, but may also be a club, a net, a shield, a sword, a trident and two tusks.... |
"Yamanduga" | Tibetan | One of the Nadman-Dobshot, an emenation of Monsushari. He was changed into a horrible sight by Jakshiamuni so he could go against Tjotjitjalba. Yamanduga is depicted surrounded by flames, with a blue body, with ten heads, twenty horribly-beweaponed arms and twenty clawed feet dancing on a heap of tortured people. Tibetan |
Deity name "Yamantaka (destroyer of Yama)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | Guardian deity. An emanation of AKSOBHYA and one of a group of DHARMAPALA with terrible appearance and royal attire who guard the Dalai Lama. By tradition he stifled the great rage of YAMA. His SAKTI is Vidyadhara. He is also a dikpala or guardian of the easterly direction. He tramples a number of creatures including a man, and possesses thirty-two arms and sixteen legs. Color: red, blue, black or white. Attributes: many.... |
King name "Yang Dag Rgyal Po" | Tibet | The power-granting king and an epithet of the wish-fulfilling gem. Tibet |
"Yeti" | Nepal | The Yeti is an alleged ape-like animal said to inhabit the Himalaya region of Nepal and Tibet. The names Yeti and Meh-Teh are commonly used by the people indigenous to the region, and are part of their history and mythology. |
God name "dMu-bDud Kam-Po Sa-Zan" | Bon / Tibet | sky god. The head of the ancient pantheon in the Bon religion.... |
Spirit name "gNyan" | Tibetan | Tree spirits. Malevolent forces residing in the mountains which can bring sickness or death.... |
God name "gSari Sgrub" | Bon / Lamaist / Tibet | God. Originally a Bon deity who became syncretized as a variety of the god YAMA in Lamaism. His animal is the bull and he may appear bull-headed. Color: red. Attributes: cup, knife and prayer wheel.... |
God name "sMan-Bla (physician)" | Buddhist - Lamaist / Tibet | God. One of the more popular Medicine-buddhas and possibly derived from Persian light-religion. Attributes: fruit and waterjar.... |