Yama’s Connections

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Serves

• Yamantaka

  Yamantaka, the wrathful emanation of Manjushri, conquered and subjugated Yama, the lord of death, to serve the dharma.

Equivalent to

• Emma-O(Japanese),Yama(Buddhist),Yama(Hindu),Yanluo Wang(Chinese),Yeomra(Korean)

  The Vedic lord of the dead traveled the Silk Road with Buddhism — becoming Yanluo Wang in Chinese courts of hell, Emma-Ō in Japanese judgment halls, Yeomra in Korean underworld tribunals, and Yama in Tibetan bardo visions, each culture reshaping the same dread judge to fit its own afterlife.

Associated with

• Bardo

  Yama, the lord of death, judges the consciousness of the dead as they pass through the Bardo, weighing their karma with his mirror of truth to determine their next rebirth among the six realms.