A yidam or iṣṭadevatā is a meditational deity that serves as a focus for meditation and spiritual practice, said to be manifestations of Buddhahood or...

Lama (Sanskrit: guru) is the 'root of blessing' or 'root of grace' the Yidam (Sanskrit: ishtadevata) is the 'root of methods' or 'root of accomplishments'...

the Yidam is one of the profound mysteries of the Vajrayana... Especially during the first years of practice the Yidam is of immense importance. Yidam is...

as one of the Three Roots (a variant of the Three Jewels), alongside the yidam and protector (who may be a dakini, dharmapala or other Buddhist deity figure)...

(Tārāmūlakalpa). Both Green and White Tārā remain popular meditation deities or yidams in Tibetan Buddhism, and Tara is also revered in Newar Buddhism. Tārā is...

rdo rje; Chinese: 喜金剛 Xǐ jīngāng / 呼金剛 Hū jīngāng;) is one of the main yidams (enlightened beings) in Tantric, or Vajrayana Buddhism. Hevajra's consort...

visualisation based on the vivid iconography associated with their yidam. Yidams can be peaceful, fierce and "semi-fierce" (having both fierce and peaceful...

symbols or "symbolic attributes" (Tibetan: ཕྱག་མཚན་, THL: chaktsen) are yidam and teaching tools. Not only do these attributes (or energetic signatures)...

In Buddhism, Avalokiteśvara (meaning "the lord who looks down", IPA: /ˌʌvəloʊkɪˈteɪʃvərə/), also known as Lokeśvara ("Lord of the World") and Chenrezig...

Central figure is a yidam, a meditation deity. The 25 seated figures represent the 25 kings of Shambhala. The middle figure in the top row represents...

Henotheistic aspects of Hinduism Icon Kuldevta Patron saint Smartism Vedanta Yidam V. S. Apte, A Practical Sanskrit Dictionary, p. 250. Jha, J.C. (1976). "The...

Vajrayoginī sādhanas and comprising forty-six works by various authors. The yidam that a meditator identifies with when practicing the Six Yogas of Nāropa...

The central figure is a Yidam, a meditation deity. The 25 seated figures represent the 25 Kings Of Shambhala. The middle figure in the top row represents...

known as Magzor Gyalmo (the Queen who Repels Armies). Saraswati was the yidam (principal personal meditational deity) of 14th century Tibetan monk Je...

known as deity yoga (devata yoga). There are numerous meditation deities (yidam) used, each with a mandala, a circular symbolic map used in meditation....

practice. Deity Yoga is also a feature of Nyingma. The foremost deities (yidam) practiced by the Nyingma masters are Vajrakīla (Tib. Dorje Phurba) and...

རྡོ་རྗེ་གཞོན་ནུ, Wylie: rdo rje gzhon nu, THL: Dorje Shönnu) is a wrathful heruka yidam deity who embodies the enlightened activity of all the Buddhas. His practice...

A Yamari (གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད shin je she in Tibetan) is a yidam or meditation deity of the Anuttara Yoga Tantra method (father) classification. The Word यमारि...

Tibetan Buddhism, and in the Kagyu school Vajravarahi is one of its main yidam practices. Vajravarahi is depicted often in the red color, and in a dancing...

generation stage, one meditates on emptiness and visualizes one's chosen deity (yidam), its mandala and companion deities, resulting in identification with this...

Varuna, also considered an embodiment of kingship. Chatra is also a deity, yidam and ishta-devata.[citation needed] In various Dharmic traditions it is an...

Atua Hanitu Hyang Kaitiaki Kawas (mythology) Tiki Tibetan Buddhism has Yidam as a tutelary deity. Dakini is the patron of those who seek knowledge. Chinese...

or yogini to use an imagined consort (a buddhist tantric deity, i.e. a yidam). These later tantras such as the Hevajra Tantra and the Chakrasamvara are...

(transcendent wisdom) in Mahayana Buddhism. In Tibetan Buddhism, he is also a yidam. His name means "Gentle Glory". Mañjuśrī is also known by the fuller Sanskrit...

The tantric dakini Vajrayogini is an important tantric meditation deity (yidam) in Tibetan Vajrayana, and is also considered to be a female Buddha in her...

thoughts that forever involve good are thus the Sambhogakāya. Refuge tree Yidam Harvey 1995, p. 126. Harvey 1995, p. 128. Namdak 1991. Yampolski 1967. Harvey...

Bodhisattva Buddhahood Creator in Buddhism Nat (spirit) Shinbutsu-shūgō Yidam Nihon Kokugo Daijiten Daijirin Thiểu Chửu (1966). Hán-Việt Tự-điển (2nd ed...

meditation on a chosen deity or "cherished divinity" (Skt. Iṣṭa-devatā, Tib. yidam), which involves the recitation of mantras, prayers and visualization of...

 'knowledge-causing mother-Buddha') is a female, peaceful to semi-wrathful Yidam in Tibetan Buddhism particularly associated with rites of magnetization...

Buddhism, the śrīvatsa is said to be a feature of the tutelary deity (Tibetan: yidam) Mañjuśrī the Youth (Skt: Mañjuśrīkumārabhūta). In Tibetan Buddhism, the...