ID: 901002286 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901002286	Record Type: Character/Person

	Yamāntaka (Buddhist deity)

Note: Lord of death deity of Vajrayana Buddhism.

Names:

	Yamāntaka (Buddhist deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
	यमान्तक (Buddhist deity) (Sanskrit-P,D,N)
	Vajrabhairava (Buddhist deity) (English)
	གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་, རྡོ་རྗེ་འཇིགས་བྱེད། (Buddhist deity) (Tibetan)
	대위덕명왕 (Buddhist deity) (Korean-P,D)

Hierarchical Position:

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

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)

	deity of .... death
	.....(personal life events, events (activities), Events (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Yamāntaka (Buddhist deity)
	................Sahai, Minor Hindu and Buddhist Deities (1975)
	................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh 85148959
	यमान्तक (Buddhist deity)
	................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamantaka
	Vajrabhairava (Buddhist deity)
	................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
	གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་, རྡོ་རྗེ་འཇིགས་བྱེད། (Buddhist deity)
	................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamantaka
	대위덕명왕 (Buddhist deity)
	................Wikipedia (2000-) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamantaka

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Source for image https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yamantaka#/media/File:Yamantaka,_Fear-Striking_Vajra,_Lord_of_Death_on_a_water_buffalo,_Vajrayana_Buddhism.jpg