Explore: Yama (buddhist Deity)

on the god Yama of the Hindu Vedas, the Buddhist Yama has spread and developed different myths and different functions from the Hindu deity. He has also

traditions in different countries have also absorbed native deities into their localized Buddhist pantheon, sometimes as Bodhisattvas. Some examples are Guan

personification of Dharma, though the two deities have different origins and myths. In Vedic tradition, Yama was considered the first mortal who died and

Yama (Devanagari: यम) is the Hindu deity of death, dharma, the south direction, and the underworld. Belonging to an early stratum of Rigvedic Hindu deities

mountains have shrines to similar deities in the Daoist traditions, called Shanshen. The Japanese equivalent is the Yama-no-Kami (山の神; also pronounced as

misplaced vowels or missing conjuncts instead of Indic text. The yamas (Sanskrit: यम, romanized: yama), and their complement, the niyamas, represent a series of

Yāma is the third of the six heavenly worlds of the desire realm in Buddhist cosmology. It is located between Trāyastriṃśa and Tushita. This world is variously

delusion — conquering and trampling them on the spot." In Tantric Buddhist art, fierce deities are presented as terrifying, demonic-looking beings adorned with

Badadum - deity in Waray mythology that gathers family members at the mouth of a river to make a farewell to the deceased Diêm Vương (King Yama) Mạnh Bà

clutches of death Yama and is seen as the deity of adherence and origin of the Mahamrityunjaya Mantra of Buddhism and Hinduism. In the buddhist Tantra, Siva