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Buddhism includes a wide array of divine beings that are venerated in various ritual and popular contexts. Initially they included mainly Indian figures such as devas, asuras and yakshas, but later came to include other Asian spirits and local gods (like the Burmese nats and the Japanese kami). They range from enlightened Buddhas to regional spirits adopted by Buddhists or practiced on the margins of the religion.
Buddhists later also came to incorporate aspects from the countries to which it spread. As such, it includes many aspects taken from other mythologies of those cultures.
traditions in different countries have also absorbed native deities into their localized Buddhist pantheon, sometimes as Bodhisattvas. Some examples are Guan...
all modern Buddhist schools accept the existence of deities of some kind; the main point of divergence is on the influence of these deities. Of the major...
In Buddhism, wrathful deities or fierce deities are the fierce, wrathful or forceful (Tibetan: trowo, Sanskrit: krodha) forms (or "aspects", "manifestations")...
These deities may also hold various attributes and implements in their hands, like flowers, jewels, bowls and sutras. Depictions of "wrathful deities" are...
of 88 locales. The Shingon pantheon includes numerous Buddhistdeities. Many of these deities have vital roles as they are regularly invoked by the practitioner...
belief that many deities exist, but that only one of these deities may be validly worshipped. Monotheism is the belief that only one deity exists.[excessive...
texts as the Buddhist Tantras. It includes practices that make use of mantras, dharanis, mudras, mandalas and the visualization of deities and Buddhas...
visualization of mental images consisting mainly of Buddhistdeities such as Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and fierce deities, along mantra repetition. According to Geoffrey...
Protective Deities (Chinese: 二十四諸天; pinyin: Èrshísì Zhūtiān), a common ser ot Chinese Buddhist protector deities (dharmapalas). Chinese Buddhist temples...
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discrete, separate beings. These deities may be part of a pantheon, or different regions may have tutelary deities. The noun goddess is a secondary formation...
誐那鉢底; Tibetan: tshogs bdag) is a Buddhistdeity venerated in various traditions of Mahayana Buddhism. He is the Buddhist equivalent of the Hindu god Ganesha...
outside India. But Muktinath was considered a temple of the purely Buddhistdeity Avalokiteshvara until the middle of the eighteenth century. After Jumli...
exaggerated facial features. Another Buddhistdeity, Shukongōshin, one of the wrath-filled protector deities of Buddhist temples in Japan, is also an interesting...
Hindu deities are the gods and goddesses in Hinduism. Deities in Hinduism are as diverse as its traditions, and a Hindu can choose to be polytheistic...
condemn peaceful offerings to deities. Throughout the history of Buddhism, the worship of deities, often from pre-Buddhist and animist origins, was appropriated...
Jūsanbutsu) is a Japanese grouping of Buddhistdeities, particularly in the Shingon sect of Buddhism. The deities are, in fact, not only Buddhas, but include...
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Hindu deities (or the qualities of Hindu deities) into their tradition. Mahayana Buddhist texts like the Kāraṇḍavyūhasūtra consider Hindu deities such...
to Lord of Shmashana. The name Shmashan Adhipathi is given to different deities in Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism. Shiva is considered to be the lord of...
The Mahoraga (Sanskrit: महोरग) are a race of deities in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Like the nāga, they are often depicted as anthropomorphic beings...