Jambhala

HE IS INGESTED ON THIN GROUND AND THE RECORD SAYS SO. The retrieved treatment reaches him only through the wealth-deity class it places White Mahakala in, and gives him no narrative of his own. He is kept because the wealth deities are a standing category of Tibetan practice that the corpus holds nothing of, and he carries a verified-solitary verdict rather than a manufactured edge. NO RELATION IS DRAWN TO buddhist_vaishravana, whom the practice traditions associate with him, because the retrieved sources do not draw it. TYPE deity IS THE NEAREST CATEGORY THIS SCHEMA HAS AND THE TRADITION DOES NOT USE IT; lane 26 escalated this and nothing is decided here.

Domains

• wealth

Sources

• Reference treatment of Mahakala, Nagpo Chenpo, 'the Great Black One', regarded in many Tibetan traditions as a wrathful manifestation of Avalokitesvara, the bodhisattva of compassion: more than seventy-five forms are known in Tibet, where he is generally called mGon po, 'Master', 'Lord' or 'Protector'; the six-armed White Mahakala (Gonpo Karpo Chagdrugpa, Shadbhuja Sita Mahakala) is the most popular of these variations and is a wealth deity across all the traditions; his multiple arms are read as his capacity to carry out numerous tasks simultaneously.