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)...

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

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...

(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...

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...

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...

In Buddhism, Avalokiteśvara (meaning "God looking upon men with pity", IPA: /ˌʌvəloʊkɪˈteɪʃvərə/), also known as Lokeśvara ("Lord of the World") and Chenrezig...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

rule Utility Validity Value Vamachara Vajrayana Vice Virtual Virtue Well-being Well-founded phenomenon Wisdom Work of art Wrong Yi Yoga Yidam Zeitgeist...

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...

Bodhisattva Buddhahood Creator in Buddhism Nat (spirit) Shinbutsu-shūgō Yidam Buddhist Cosmology Susan Elbaum Jootla: "Teacher of the Devas", The Wheel...

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...

directly from one's supernatural mind, or via the prediction of one's personal yidams (white or green Tara, for example, or Dharma protectors). Levin, Norma (2013)...

(anuttara-yoga) class. Kālacakra also refers both to a patron tantric deity or yidam in Vajrayana and to the philosophies and yogas of the Kālacakra tradition...

stage, one dissolves the mundane world and visualizes one's chosen deity (yidam), its mandala and companion deities, resulting in identification with this...