Bishamonten
Japanese · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
He is in two groups at once — the Seven Lucky Gods and the Four Heavenly Kings — which is normal for him and awkward for a registry. The sweep matched him to `buddhist_vaishravana` and the relation is written rather than the records merged, because the Japanese figure has a Japanese office, a Japanese armour and a Japanese clientele of warriors, and because merging across that seam would erase precisely the transmission the corpus exists to show.
Domains
- warfare
- north
- protection
Relations
- companion: DaikokutenOne of the Seven.Reference treatment of the Shichifukujin as a fixed group. (secondary)
- counterpart of: VaiśravaṇaThe Indian end of the transmission, which the corpus already holds. Recorded as a counterpart rather than merged: the member of the Shichifukujin who hears demons coming and the Vedic lord of wealth are not the same office.Reference treatment of Bishamonten as originating from the Indian Vaiśravaṇa and arriving in Japan via China. (secondary)
Sources
- Bishamonten is one of the Seven Lucky Gods, a god of war and good fortune derived from the Indian Vaiśravaṇa, and as Tamonten the chief of the Four Heavenly Kings, guarding the north by his hearing.: Reference treatments of Bishamonten and of the Shichifukujin. (secondary)