Viśuddha heruka

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Viśuddha heruka (T. yan dak he ru ka ཡང་དག་ཧེ་རུ་ཀ་), aka. Yangdak heruka. The heruka of the vajra family or the tantric teachings connected to that wrathful deity. One of the principal deities of the Eight Great Sadhana Teachings of the Nyingma school. The wrathful deity of vajra mind.[1]

For the term meaning "purity", see Viśuddhi.

Notes

  1. ↑ ཡང་དག་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary

Further reading

  • Jamgön Kongtrul Lodrö Tayé, The Treasury of Knowledge: Systems of Buddhist Tantra (Ithaca: Snow Lion, 2005)

External links

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