ཧེ་རུ་ཀ | Glossary of Terms
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ཁྲག་འཐུང་།
- ཁྲག་འཐུང་བ།
- ཧེ་རུ་ཀ
- he ru ka
- khrag ’thung
- khrag ’thung ba
- heruka
- Term
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- heruka
- ཧེ་རུ་ཀ
- ཁྲག་འཐུང་།
- he ru ka
- khrag ’thung
- heruka
The wrathful buddha personifying the true nature of all forms and all the sensory fields and elements; a wrathful deity of the vīra type; also an epithet applied to some wrathful deities, especially Hevajra and Saṃvara.
- heruka
- ཁྲག་འཐུང་བ།
- khrag ’thung ba
- heruka
A type of bloodthirsty, charnel ground-dwelling being considered threatening to people and practitioners. In the higher classes of Buddhist tantra, the central deity of many maṇḍalas takes the form of a heruka.