ID: 901000902 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000902	Record Type: Character/Person

	Vajrabhairava (Buddhist deity)

Note: In northern Buddhism, one of the eight fierce protective deities; the fierce manifestation of Manjusri.

Names:

	Vajrabhairava (Buddhist deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
	Yamāntaka (Buddhist deity) (English,U,N)
	Yamāntaka Vajrabhairava (Buddhist deity) (English)
	यमान्तक (Buddhist deity) (Sanskrit,U,N)
	གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་, རྡོ་རྗེ་འཇིགས་བྱེད། (Buddhist deity) (Tibetan,U,N)
	大威徳明王 (Buddhist deity) (Japanese,U,N)
	Daitokumyōō (Buddhist deity) (Japanese (transliterated),U,N)
	大威德金剛 (Buddhist deity) (Chinese,U,N)
	Dà Wēidé Jīngāng (Buddhist deity) (Chinese (transliterated),U,N)
	Эрлэгийн Жаргагчи (Buddhist deity) (Mongolian,U,N)
	Erlig-jin Jarghagchi (Buddhist deity) (Mongolian (transliterated),U,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Buddhist iconography> (P)
		........<Buddhist characters> (P)
		............Vajrabhairava (Buddhist deity) (I)

Related Iconography:

	manifestation of .... Manjushri
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Buddhist iconography, Buddhist characters, Manjushri (Buddhist bodhisattva)) [901000407]

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... deity
	.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	culture/religion is .... Buddhism
	.....(religions (belief systems, cultures), religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Vajrabhairava (Buddhist deity)
	................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh 96010189
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Yamāntaka (Buddhist deity)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Yamāntaka Vajrabhairava (Buddhist deity)
	................British Museum [online] (1999-)
	यमान्तक (Buddhist deity)
	................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamantaka
	གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་, རྡོ་རྗེ་འཇིགས་བྱེད། (Buddhist deity)
	................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamantaka
	大威徳明王 (Buddhist deity)
	................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamantaka
	Daitokumyōō (Buddhist deity)
	................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamantaka
	大威德金剛 (Buddhist deity)
	................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamantaka
	Dà Wēidé Jīngāng (Buddhist deity)
	................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamantaka
	Эрлэгийн Жаргагчи (Buddhist deity)
	................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamantaka
	Erlig-jin Jarghagchi (Buddhist deity)
	................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamantaka

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh 96010189
	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Yamāntaka," accessed 10 June 2017
	................ British Museum [online] (1999-) http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=251439&partId=1&searchText=Vajrabhairava&page=1