Shinje
Tibetan Buddhist · deity · mythic · deity
Tibetan form of Yama: lord of death, 'king of the religious law' (Dharmarāja), and a principal dharmapāla of the Gelug school depicted buffalo-headed and dark blue. His wrathful conqueror is Yamāntaka (Mañjuśrī), 'destroyer of Yama'.
Domains
- lordship of death
- king of the religious law
Powers
- Judge the dead by the law of karma
- Guard spiritual practice as enlightened wrath
Epithets
- གཤིན་རྗེ་
- ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོ་
- धर्मराज
- གཤིན་རྗེ་ཆོས་རྒྱལ
Relations
- equated with: Yama
Sources
- Pali Canon, Devadūta-sutta (MN 130) (Yama)
- Tibetan Yama Dharmarāja / Gelug protector tradition