The Blessed One, glorious Heruka, is black in color, with four faces and twelve arms. His faces are in expression of extremely terrifying. The main face is black and wrathful, the right face is white and peaceful, the left face is red and passionate, and the back face is yellow and expansive. Each face has three eyes. Of his twelve hands, the first two hold a vajra and bell and embrace the mother. The second two hands hold a stretched elephant skin. The remaining four right hands hold a flaying knife, trident, battle-axe, and ḍamaru. The four left hands hold a khaṭvāṅga, lasso, skull, and head of Brahmā. He stands on a sun seat, with his right leg extended and pressing down on black Bhairava and his left leg bent and pressing down on red Kālarātri. He is adorned with various ornaments, the six mudras, and the subsidiary mudras. The mother is Vajravārāhī with one face and two hands. Her right hand holds a red five-pronged vajra and makes the threatening gesture. Her left hand holds a skull cup and embraces the neck of the father. She has a crown of five dry skulls and a necklace of fifty dry skulls. She is naked and adorned with the five mudras except for the great ash. She stands with her two calves embracing the father.

The thirteen-deity Black Yamataka is the type of Vairocana based on the Black Yamantaka Tantra. On the back of an angry black buffalo adorned with bone ornaments, standing on a multicoloured lotus and sun, on a seat of Yama, is the black Yamāntaka with three faces—black, white, and red—and six hands. The first two hands hold a flaying knife and skull cup, and he is leaning against the wisdom consort of natural light. The remaining two right hands hold a vajra and a sword, and the remaining two left hands hold a wheel and a lotus. His tongue moves and he bares his blazing fangs. He has three eyes, an orange beard, eyebrows and hair standing upright. He is adorned with vajra ornaments. His body is short and his belly hangs down. His limbs are coarse and he is adorned by the eight great nāgas. He has a crown of five dry human heads and a necklace of fifty fresh blood-dripping heads. He stands with his right leg drawn in and his left leg extended. He has eight masters and four consorts as his retinue. All of them have three faces and six arms. There are thirteen of them, including the principal one.

The glorious and great Yamataka with Thirteen Deities is black in color. He has nine faces with thirty seven arms and sixteen legs. He stands with right leg bent and left leg extended. He bares his fangs and looks wrathful. His eyebrows and eyes blaze like the time of destruction. His tawny hair is coiled upward. He holds a skull cup made from five dry skulls. His head is adorned with a garland of fifty fresh skulls. A black snake is the sacrificial ladle, and he has a human bone wheel. He is adorned with bone ornaments such as earrings. He has a large belly and naked body. His eyebrows, eyelashes, beard, and body hairs blaze upward like fire. His main face look like a buffalo and is wrathful with a sharp horn. He has five locks of hair on his head. The first face on the right of the horn’s root is blue. The face to the right of that is smoke-colored. The left face is black and all faces look very wrathful. All nine faces have three eyes on each. The first two arms on the right and left sides hold fresh elephant skins. On the right side, he holds a curved knife, a pestle, a water knife, an axe, spear, and arrow, a hook, a club, a wheel, a five-pronged vajra, vajra hammer and sword, and a changdeo. On the left side he holds a skull, a head of Brahma, a shield, a leg, a lasso, a bow, an intestine, a bell, hands, cloth from a cremation site, a person speared on the end a stick, a fire pit, a skull cup and three pointed thrust and clothes. The eight right legs press down on a human, buffalo, ox, donkey, camel, dog, sheep, and a wolf. The eight left legs press down on a vulture, owl, crow, parrot, eagle, big bird, house bird, and a shayma. He presses down under his feet Brahmā, Indra, Viṣṇu, Rudra, the six-faced youth, and the misleading one, moon and sun. He is standing in the midst of a blazing fire. In his lap is the mother, blue Vajra. She has one face with two arms. Her right hand holds a vajra curved knife and her left hand, embracing the father, holds a skull filled with blood. Her head is adorned with five dry skulls and necklace made of fifty skulls. She is adorned with the five mudras. Her right leg is extended, and her left leg embraces the father. Her entourage has eight yamantakas and four mothers.

The thirteenth deity of Cakrasamvara mandala is blue in color, with four faces and twelve arms. The root face is blue, the left face is green, the right face is yellow, and the back face is red. Each face possess three eyes and a skull crown. He has six bone ornaments, a skirt of tiger skin and a necklace of fifty fresh human heads. Out of twelve hands, the first two hold a vajra and a bell (ghaṇṭā) and embrace the red feminine consort Vajra vārāhī who is holding a curved knife and skull, and the two lower ones hold a stretched elephant skin behind their body. The remaining right hands hold a hand drum/ Damaru, axe, curved knife, and trident. The remaining left hands hold a Khatramga/a trident, skull, lasso and the head of Brahma. He stands on a seat on which he stands with his right leg extended pressing black Bhairava and his left leg bent in which its pressing on red kālarātrī. The retinue deities consist of twelve Dakinis, all with one face, three eye and possess four hands. The two right hands hold a damaru/hand drum and knife, and the two left hands holds a skull and a trident [bearing three heads]. They are standing on human corpse seats with their right legs extended. These are the thirteen principal and secondary deities.

The ThanglhaYabzhur is the principal deity of the three principal lands of Tibet, the Thipo, the Thang, and the Tsang. In the enchanting melody of Brahma, the catalogue of the king of glaciers of the world, is that mentions that ‘The main deity of the thanglha is the deity of Tibet. In the region of Damshung between Lhasa and Nagchu, there is the awesome Thanglha, the great deity of the plains, which stands like the white snow mountain of Meru. He rides a red horse and holds a bow and arrow in his hands, symbolizing skilful means and wisdom. He leads a female dragon on his right and a female lightning bolt on his left. A white lioness follows him, and a great golden garuḍa hovers above his head. His retinue consists of the army of nyen spirits and hundreds of thousands of minor nyen spirits. All of them are surrounded by white men on white horses with white banners on their heads. They are surrounded by the sound of ki and so that fills the sky. They are the protectors and guardians of Bön who obeyed the commands they took in the presence of many Bönposhenvidyādharas and the assembly of Bön deities.

The teacher Shakyamuni, or Buddha-Bhagavan, was born in fifth century BCE in Lumbini as the son of Shuddodana and Mahamaya. He looked after the kingdom until age twenty-nine, at which time he saw samsara as without essence. He went forth as a monastic in front of the Stupa of Great Purity and for six years practice austerities on the banks of the River Naranja. He became a complete buddha in before the bodhi tree in Bodh Gaya. In Varanasi, he first turned the wheel of Dharma by teaching the four noble truths to the excellent group of five initial disciples. He taught the second cycle of teachings, on non-characteristics, on Vulture’s Peak, and simultaneously turned the Dharma wheel of secret mantra at the Rice-Heap Stupa in South India. At Vaishali he turned the wheel of the third cycle, the teachings on excellent differentiation. With these teachings and others, he taught profound and extensive Dharma to limitless trainees without regard to time or place, establishing well the tradition of Buddhist teachings. His direct disciples included Ananda, Mahakasyapa, Upali, and countless others. Finally, when he had reached his eight-first year, he showed the aspect of passing beyond sorrow, entrusting the entirety of his teaching to the hearer Mahakasyapa. Having transferred authority to him, he showed the aspect of passing beyond sorrow in Kushinagar. The latter generations continuously persevered his teachings, and all of these, especially the baskets of sutra, vinaya, and Abhidharma that were preserved by Hearer Ananda, Arya Upali, and Mahakasyapa, were translated into over one hundred volumes in Tibetan, without a single verse left out. From the time of the Buddha, these teachings spread and flourished throughout many countries in Asia, and latter students spread them further, such that today the teachings of the Buddha flourish across the whole world. What’s more, the Dharma tradition that represents nonviolence rooted in love and compassion, and many small and large statues of the Buddha symbolizing the teacher whose essence is peace and tranquillity, exist throughout the world.

The glorious single form of Yamantaka is black in color. He has nine faces with thirty seven arms and sixteen legs. He stands with right leg bent and left leg extended. He bares his fangs and looks wrathful. His eyebrows and eyes blaze like the time of destruction. His tawny hair is coiled upward. His eyebrows and eyes blaze like the time of destruction. He has a skull cup made from five dry skulls. His head is adorned with a garland of fifty fresh skulls. A black snake is the sacrificial ladle, and he has a human bone wheel. He is adorned with bone ornaments such as earrings. He has a large belly and naked body. His eyebrows, eyelashes, beard, and body hairs blaze upward like fire. His main face looks like a buffalo and is wrathful with sharp horns. He has five locks of hair on his head. The first face on the right of the horn’s root is blue. The face to the right of that is smoke-coloured. The left face is black, and all faces look very wrathful. All nine faces have three eyes on each. The first two arms on the right and left sides hold fresh elephant skins. On the right side, he holds a curved knife, pestle, water knife, axe, spear, arrow, hook, club, wheel, five-pronged vajra, vajra hammer, sword, and a Changdeo. On the left side, he holds a skull, head of Brahma, shield, leg, lasso, bow, intestine, bell, hands, cloth from a cremation site, a person speared on the end of a stick, fire pit, skull cup, deekzoop, three pointed trident, and clothes. The eight right legs press down on a human, buffalo, ox, donkey, camel, dog, sheep, and wolf. The eight left legs press down a vulture, owl, crow, parrot, eagle, big bird, house bird, and shayma. He presses down under his feet Brahmā, Indra, Viṣṇu, Rudra, the six-faced youth, the misleading one, moon and sun. He is standing in the midst of a blazing fire.

The principal deity of the Sixty-Two Deities of Nīla Cakrasaṃvara is blue in color, with one face, two hands, and three eyes. He bares his fangs and holds a vajra and bell in his two hands, embracing the mother. He wears a topknot marked with crossed vajras. His head is adorned with five dry human skulls, and he wears a garland of fifty fresh heads. He has the nine moods of dance and wears a skirt of tiger skin. His hands are sealed with the six-mudra gesture. His body is anointed with human bone ashes. He stands with his right leg extended, pressing on black Bhairava, and His left leg bent, pressing on red Kālarātri. The mother is red Vajravārāhī, with one face, two hands, and three eyes. She is naked and her hair is loose. Her left hand holds a skull filled with blood, which she offers to the principal deity. Her right hand raises a vajra with a threatening gesture, and she is adorned with a garland of dry human heads and the five symbolic ornaments. Twenty-five heroes hold vajras and bells. Thirty-seven heroines hold Katamga and skulls.

The principal deity of the Sixty-Two Deities of Nīla Cakrasaṃvara is blue in color, with one face, two hands, and three eyes. He bares his fangs and holds a vajra and bell in his two hands, embracing the mother. He wears a topknot marked with crossed vajras. His head is adorned with five dry human skulls, and he wears a garland of fifty fresh heads. He has the nine moods of dance and wears a skirt of tiger skin. His hands are sealed with the six-mudra gesture. His body is anointed with human bone ashes. He stands with his right leg extended, pressing on black Bhairava, and His left leg bent, pressing on red Kālarātri. The mother is red Vajravārāhī, with one face, two hands, and three eyes. She is naked and her hair is loose. Her left hand holds a skull filled with blood, which she offers to the principal deity. Her right hand raises a vajra with a threatening gesture, and she is adorned with a garland of dry human heads and the five symbolic ornaments. Twenty-five heroes hold vajras and bells. Thirty-seven heroines hold Katamga and skulls.

The six-faced Yamāntaka is black in colour, with six faces, six arms, and six legs. The two stacked faces at the root are black, the stacked faces on the right are white, and the stacked faces on the left are red. He has three eyes. The first two hands hold a vajra and bell, the middle two a hammer and lasso, and the last two a sword and pestle. The front two legs are in the vajra position, and the middle two are drawn in and the left extended. His hair, eyebrows, and beard are orange and stand upright. He wears a crown of five dry human heads and a necklace of fifty fresh blood-dripping heads. He is adorned with snakes and jewels and wears a skirt of tiger skin.