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- Heruka is also a name for the deity of the Cakrasaṃvara Tantra. Heruka (Sanskrit; Tibetan: Wylie: khrag 'thung) is the name of a category of wrathful deities...
- Tsangnyön Heruka (Tibetan: གཙང་སྨྱོན་ཧེ་རུ་ཀ་, Wylie: gtsang smyon He ru ka "The Madman Heruka from Tsang", 1452-1507), was an author and a master of the...
- a-mahayoginī-tantra-rāja). The text is also called the Discourse of Śrī Heruka (Śrīherukābhidhāna) and the Samvara Light (Laghusaṃvara). "Cakrasaṃvara"...
- times. The best-known biography, The Life of Milarepa, written by Tsangnyön Heruka (1452–1507) in the fifteenth century and drawing from older biographies...
- རྡོ་རྗེ་གཞོན་ནུ, Wylie: rdo rje gzhon nu, THL: Dorje Shönnu) is a wrathful heruka yidam deity who embodies the enlightened activity of all the Buddhas. His...
- fact clearly evident in the story about Naropa's receiving the teaching. Heruka with prajna Vajravarahi (1544 AD). Discovered in Nepal, statue on display...
- considered a fierce emanation of boddhisatva Mañjuśrī, and also called Heruka, Vajrabhairava, and Yamantaka. Bhairava is worshipped throughout India,...
- imagery. Fierce deities can be divided into male and female categories. The Herukas (Tb. khrag 'thung, lit. "blood drinker") are enlightened masculine beings...
- and Vajrapani. Later he received empowerments of Guhyasamāja, Yamantaka, Heruka and Vajrayogini. He also continued to receive instructions and initiations...
- in the Gelug school Thangtong Gyalpo Drukpa Kunley Tsangnyön Heruka "The Madman Heruka from Tsang", (1452-1507) Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol (1781-1851)...