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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)

Source: Wisdomlib Libary: Vajrayogini

Yamamathanī (यममथनी) is the presiding deity of the north-eastern outer corner of the vārāhyabhyudaya-maṇḍala, according to the Vārāhyabhyudayatantra (largerly extracted from the 10th century Abhidhānottaratantra). The central deity of the vārāhyabhyudaya-maṇḍala is the twelve-armed Vajravarāhī, which is modeled upon the twelve-armed Cakrasaṃvara, thus inhibiting many similar iconographical features.

Yamadaṃṣṭṛiṇī has a terrible form and the head of a horse and is to be visualised as being dwarfish in shape and squint-eyed. They wield in their left hands a skull bowl and the head of Brahmā, and in their right hands a chopper and ḍamaru.

Source: academia.edu: The Structure and Meanings of the Heruka Maṇḍala

Yamadaṃṣṭriṇī (यमदंष्ट्रिणी) refers to the Ḍākinī of the north-western corner in the Guṇacakra, according to the 10th century Ḍākārṇava chapter 15. Accordingly, the guṇacakra refers to one of the four divisions of the sahaja-puṭa (‘innate layer’), situated within the padma (lotus) in the middle of the Herukamaṇḍala. Two colors are evenly assigned to the four corner Ḍākinīs [viz., Yamadaṃṣṭriṇī] in order in accordance with the direction which they face.

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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: Damshtrini, Yama.

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