Yamaraja Yama Dharmaraja [Yama King of the law] is the sometimes buffalo-headed Lord of the Death of ancient Indian mythology, who judges the soul at the gate of hell, and whose minions come for us when our days are done. In Buddhist myth, Manjushri has brought this most fearsome god under control as a Dharma protector [Dharmapala] and us such he is a major protector deity in the Tibetan Buddhist practice. He is especially important for the Gelugpas, because of Tsong Khapa´s special association with Manjushri, the Conqueror of Yama. At to [second figure from the left] there is an image of Tsong Khapa. This identifies the work from Geluk order. Archetype and protector deities can have outer, inner, secret, and sometimes ultimate forms. The Outer Yamaraja, with his buffalo head, is the form normally represented. He confronts outer obstacles and seeks to protect practitioners and monasteries from doughts, bandits, and other misfortune. There is also an Inner Yamaraja, a similar form usually represented with a human-type terrific face. The true spiritual obstacles in one´s life are not outer circumstances, but inner defilements such as fear, hate, pride, and jealousy; so he inner Yamaraja is invoked to destroy them. He is an protector on and emotional, spiritual plane. There is also the Secret Yamaraja, who works in the instinctive wellsprings of one´s being and brings correspondingly deep positive energy out from those inner realms.
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