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Mara (Hindu goddess), the goddess of death according to Hindu mythology. Mṛtyu-māra as death in Buddhism or Māra , a "demon" of the Buddhist cosmology, the personification of Temptation. Yama ( Sanskrit : यम ) is the god of death and the underworld in Hinduism and Buddhism.
Mara (Sanskrit: मर, romanized: Mará, lit. 'Death') is a Sanskrit word meaning "death" or any personification thereof; it may also refer to Mrtyu (Sanskrit: मृत्यु, romanized: Mṛtyu, lit. 'Death') or Mrtyu Devi (lit. "Goddess of Death"). In Hinduism, Mara is the goddess of death and
Relief fragment of Mara in Gandhara style, found in Swat Valley The demons of mara. Palm leaf manuscript. Nalanda, Bihar, India Mara's assault on the Buddha (an aniconic representation: the Buddha is only symbolized by his throne), 2nd century, Amaravati Stupa, India Mara, his lustful daughters, and demonic army, attempting to tempt Buddha, on a 10th-century icon from Mogao Caves
In Buddhism, there is the Mara that is concerned with death, the Mrtyu-mara. [3] It is a demon that makes humans want to die, and it is said that upon being possessed by it, in a shock, one should suddenly want to die by suicide, so it is sometimes explained to be a "shinigami". [4]
Yama (Sanskrit: यम, lit. 'twin'), also known as Kāla and Dharmarāja, is the Hindu god of death and justice, responsible for the dispensation of law and punishment of sinners in his abode, Naraka.
Hevajra and Nairatmya. Tibet, 18th Century. Some time in the early 11th century, Drogmi Lotsawa Shākya Yeshe ('brog mi lo ts'a ba sh'akya ye shes) (993–1077 AD) journeyed from Drompa-gyang in Lhatsé to Nepal and India, including Vikramashila, where he received instruction in the Hevajra Tantra from Śānti-pa (Ratnākaraśānti), and later to Bengal, where he encountered Prajñedraruci ...
She is the patroness of all feminine duties (children, cattle), patroness of all the economic activities ("God made the table, Māra made the bread"), even money and markets.
Svecchāmṛtyu (Sanskrit: स्वेच्छामृत्यु, lit. 'self-willed death'), also called Icchāmṛtyu (Sanskrit ...