Yama Dharmaraja – Buddhist Protector
Yama Dharmaraja is the Inner Lord of Death, King of the Law. Dharmaraja is the special protector for the Vajrabhairava cycle of the Tantric practices and is especially associated with the Rwa Lotsawa Tradition.
Gestures and Attributes
Yama Dharmaraja is depicted in blue color with one face and two hands; his right hand holds a Kartika (curved knife) and the left hand holds Kapala (blood filled skull cup) to heart. Fearsome and wrath, having the appearance of Raksha demon, his dark yellow hair flows upward flame like, rising above a black half Vajra and the golden crown marked with five dry skulls. Wearing a green scarf and jewels, gold and bone ornaments, he is adorned with a necklace of severed heads and wears a tiger skin around the waist tied with a green sash. Standing with the left leg bent and the right leg extended above a brown corpse, sun disc and lotus blossom above a black triangle mandala filled with blood he dwells completely surrounded within the red flames of pristine awareness.
