• ཁྲག་འཐུང་།
  • ཁྲག་འཐུང་བ།
  • ཧེ་རུ་ཀ
  • he ru ka
  • khrag ’thung
  • khrag ’thung ba
  • heruka
  • Term
Publications: 2
  • heruka
  • ཧེ་རུ་ཀ
  • ཁྲག་འཐུང་།
  • he ru ka
  • khrag ’thung
  • heruka
Definition in this text:

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
Definition in this text:

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.