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ID: 901002268
Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002268
Record Type: Character/Person

Vadirat (Buddhist deity)

Note: A form of Manjusri; of medium height, appears as a youth of 16 years, seated on the back of a tiger.

Names:
Vadirat (Buddhist deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)

Hierarchical Position:
Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
....<Buddhist iconography> (P)
........<Buddhist characters> (P)
............Vadirat (Buddhist deity) (I)
Related Iconography:
associated with .... 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 .... Buddhist
.....(religions (belief systems, cultures), religions and religious concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)
symbolic attribute is .... tiger (species)
.....(Panthera (genus), Felidae (family), Carnivora (order), Mammalia (class), Vertebrata (subphylum), Chordata (phylum), Animalia (kingdom), Eukaryota (domain), living organisms (entities), Living Organisms (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:
Vadirat (Buddhist deity)
................Bhattacharyya, Indian Buddhist Iconography (1924) 80

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