Yamavaivasvata, Yama-vaivasvata: 1 definition
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Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana or tantric Buddhism)
Source: Google Books: VajrayoginiYamavaivasvata (यमवैवस्वत) is another name for Vaivasvata: protector deity of the southern cremation ground.—Yama is associated with the south and with the sun (vivasvat, descended from Sūrya), hence he is also Vaivasvata (Guhyasamayasādhanamālā 34) or “Yamavaivasvata”. He is also god of death, Kāla, whose agents brings departed souls to Yamapurī. Iconographically, the Śmaśānavidhi describes Yama as mounted on a buffalo (mahiṣārūḍha), black, red-eyed, fat, fearsome, holding a stick/cudgel (daṇḍa) and a skull bowl.
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: Vaivasvata, Yama.
Full-text: Shraddhadeva, Vaivasvata, Dikpala, Yama, Kala, Vivasvat.
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Rig Veda (translation and commentary) (by H. H. Wilson)
Manusmriti with the Commentary of Medhatithi (by Ganganatha Jha)
Verse 8.24 < [Section IV - The Commencement of Trials]
The Linga Purana (by J. L. Shastri)
Chapter 48 - The Mountain Meru < [Section 1 - Uttarabhāga]
Satapatha-brahmana (by Julius Eggeling)
Kāṇḍa XIII, adhyāya 4, brāhmaṇa 3 < [Thirteenth Kāṇḍa]
Introduction to volume 5 (kāṇḍa 11-14) < [Introductions]