Samvara ... in northern Buddhism, a fierce protective deity. Like Heruka and Hevajra, he is an emanation of the Buddha Aksobhya and wears a figure of that god in his headdress. Samvara is widely worshiped as a yi-dam (tutelary, or guardian, deity) in Tibet and China and is said to be incarnated in each successive grand lama of Peking. He is represented in art as blue in colour, with four heads.....
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