84000 Glossary of Terms

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ཧེ་རུ་ཀ | Glossary of Terms

  • ཧེ་རུ་ཀ

  • he ru ka
  • heruka
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Publications: 3
  • Heruka
  • ཧེ་རུ་ཀ
  • he ru ka
  • heruka
  • Heruka
  • ཧེ་རུ་ཀ
  • he ru ka
  • heruka
Definition in this text:

The wrathful form of Akṣobhya, buddha of the vajra family, who appears in the center of many tantric maṇḍalas. He is typicaly depicted wearing mortuary implements and wreathed in flame.

  • Heruka
  • ཧེ་རུ་ཀ
  • he ru ka
  • heruka RP
Definition in this text:

A name associated with the wrathful form of Vajrasattva and the wrathful forms of several male deities in the Vajrayāna Buddhist pantheon.