The Creator of Fear

This is thangka is dominated by the dynamic figure of Vajrabhairava, who is an angry form of Manjushri, the gentle bodhisattva of wisdom. The text Manjushrinamasangiti includes the name Vajrabhairava and describes him as the creator of fear.

Vajrabhairava is also an emanation of Yamantaka, who is also believed to have emerged from Manjushri. Yamantaka is the destroyer of Yama, the god of death. While Yama rides a buffalo, Yamantaka does not. Vajrabhairava however, incorporates the animal into himself, so much so that he is always portrayed with a buffalo head as his principal head. In Tibetan iconography, Vajrabhairava’s head is modeled more on the yak rather than buffalo.

Vajrabhairava has nine heads; eight are wrathful, but the ninth at the apex is that of peaceful Manjushri, his spiritual father. He has a large array of arms and also multiple legs trampling upon a host of mortal and divine creatures.

With his several heads, hands, Vajrabhairava is perhaps the most ‘cosmic’ of all Buddhist deities.

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