Krishnayamari, Kṛṣṇayamāri, Krishna-yamari: 1 definition
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The Sanskrit term Kṛṣṇayamāri can be transliterated into English as Krsnayamari or Krishnayamari, using the IAST transliteration scheme (?).
In Buddhism
Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Source: archive.org: The Indian Buddhist Iconography1) Kṛṣṇayamāri (कृष्णयमारि) refers to one of the various emanations of Akṣobhya having their Sādhana described in the 5th-century Sādhanamālā (a collection of sādhana texts that contain detailed instructions for rituals).—His Colour is blue; he has four varieties.
Kṛṣṇayamāri (two-armed variety with one face)—[His Colour is blue].—The Dhyāna (meditation instructions) is described in the Sādhanamālā as follows:—
“The worshipper should conceive himself as (Kṛṣṇa) Yamāri who stands in the pratyālīḍha attitude, is one-faced, two-armed and of blue colour. He brandishes the staff marked with a vajra with the right hand, and shows the raised index finger with the noose against the chest in the left. In this form Yamāri should be meditated upon as standing on the orb of the sun on a double lotus and as riding a buffalo”.
Kṛṣṇayamāri (four-armed variety with three faces)—[His Appearance is terrible].—The Dhyāna (meditation instructions) is described in the Sādhanamālā as follows:—
“Yamāri is terribly fierce, is of deep (blue) colour like that of the throat of a peacock, and his right and left faces are of white and redcolour (respectively). He stands on the orb of the sun on a double lotus in an angry mood. He enjoys the bliss of partaking the nectar from the lips of the Prajñā of his own creation. His hair stands on his head in the shape of a flame of fire, and his beard and the eyes are of brown colour. His ornaments are formed by the host of the lords of twice-born serpents who are white like stalks of lotuses. He carries in his right hands the mudgara and the sword, and in his left the lotus and the jewel”
Kṛṣṇayamāri (six-armed with three or six faces)—[His Āsana is the ālīḍha].—The Dhyāna (meditation instructions) is described in the Sādhanamālā as follows:—
“The worshipper should conceive himself as Yamāntaka, with an angry mood whose hair rises upwards and who is six-faced, six-armed and six-legged. He rides a buffalo, stands in the pratyālīḍha attitude, is embellished with severed human heads, and has a very ferocious appearance. He is clad in garments of tiger-skin, carries in the three right hands the khaḍga, the mudgara and the vajra, and in the three left the ghaṇṭā, the vajrapāśa and the mūṣala. He bears the effigy of Akṣobhya on the crown”
[According to another statement in the sādhana, he carries the sword, the mudgara and the vajra in the three right hands and the ghaṇṭā, the vajrapāśa and the mūṣala in the three left. The same sādhana further says that though he is represented generally as three-faced and six-armed, he may also have six faces and six legs, with the same weapons.]
2) Kṛṣṇayamāri (कृष्णयमारि) also refers to one of the two forms of Yamāri or Yamāntaka: one of the ten deities of the quarters (Dikpāla) presiding over the east, commonly depicted in Buddhist Iconography, and mentioned in the 11th-century Niṣpannayogāvalī of Mahāpaṇḍita Abhayākara.—His Colour is blue; he has six arms and three faces.—Yamāntaka presides over the East and is one of the popular deities of the Buddhist pantheon He is also known as Yamāri who is often endowed with two forms known as Kṛṣṇa-Yamāri and Rakta-Yamāri.
Tibetan Buddhism includes schools such as Nyingma, Kadampa, Kagyu and Gelug. Their primary canon of literature is divided in two broad categories: The Kangyur, which consists of Buddha’s words, and the Tengyur, which includes commentaries from various sources. Esotericism and tantra techniques (vajrayāna) are collected indepently.
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Partial matches: Krishna, Yamari.
Starts with: Krishnayamaritantra.
Full-text: Yamantaka, Vajradanda, Yamari, Raktayamari.
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