Comments on: Four Faced Mahakala https://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/dharma-readings/four-faced-mahakala/ The Protector whose time has come Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:35:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Rinchen https://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/dharma-readings/four-faced-mahakala/comment-page-1/#comment-50866 Rinchen Sun, 04 Aug 2013 00:27:07 +0000 http://dorjeshugden.com/wp/?p=10262#comment-50866 This is a short but detailed short write up about Mahakala. It allowed many of the readers to know better how Mahakala loomks like and the brief history of which high lamas prayed to this deity. Since both Dorje Shugden and Mahakala are emanations of Manjushri, would it mean that both are very similar and they are of similar purposes? Just that Dorje Shugden has been manifested to protect the Gelugpa lineage, and he is the protector of the uncommon times (now). This is a short but detailed short write up about Mahakala. It allowed many of the readers to know better how Mahakala loomks like and the brief history of which high lamas prayed to this deity.

Since both Dorje Shugden and Mahakala are emanations of Manjushri, would it mean that both are very similar and they are of similar purposes? Just that Dorje Shugden has been manifested to protect the Gelugpa lineage, and he is the protector of the uncommon times (now).

]]> By: Jungney Doraemon https://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/dharma-readings/four-faced-mahakala/comment-page-1/#comment-28557 Jungney Doraemon Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:30:12 +0000 http://dorjeshugden.com/wp/?p=10262#comment-28557 All buddhism monks and nuns ought to understand this four face and be together free from discrimination and control over one another for the benefit of Buddhism and world peace. Being a monk or nun is not good karmic of one past life but great cultivation of many past lives. Contemplate on Bodhicitta of all. All buddhism monks and nuns ought to understand this four face and be together free from discrimination and control over one another for the benefit of Buddhism and world peace. Being a monk or nun is not good karmic of one past life but great cultivation of many past lives. Contemplate on Bodhicitta of all.

]]> By: Jungney Doraemon https://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/dharma-readings/four-faced-mahakala/comment-page-1/#comment-28556 Jungney Doraemon Tue, 04 Sep 2012 02:21:21 +0000 http://dorjeshugden.com/wp/?p=10262#comment-28556 Don't this statue the same as the four face buddha of Thailand, the skilful means of Buddhism in subsuming and assimilating into different culture, continent, nation based on circumstances and condition, to benefit living beings, for planting and developing of kindness buddha seeds and to attain buddhahood. Don’t this statue the same as the four face buddha of Thailand, the skilful means of Buddhism in subsuming and assimilating into different culture, continent, nation based on circumstances and condition, to benefit living beings, for planting and developing of kindness buddha seeds and to attain buddhahood.

]]> By: Amy https://www.dorjeshugden.com/all-articles/dharma-readings/four-faced-mahakala/comment-page-1/#comment-25261 Amy Sat, 17 Mar 2012 15:23:02 +0000 http://dorjeshugden.com/wp/?p=10262#comment-25261 "Shri Vajra Chaturmukha Mahakala, the main face and the stacked face are both black, the two on the right and left are dark green. With four arms, the first two right and left hold a curved knife and blood filled skullcup to the heart. The lower right [holds] a sword. The lower left holds upraised a bone garland [of beads]. The brown hair bristles upwards; there are three eyes, bared fangs, lower lip distended, a crown of five dried skulls, a necklace of fifty fresh [heads], a brahmin's cord, bone and snake ornaments. [He] stands in a manner with the right leg bent and the left straight; having an appearance of magnificent wrathfulness. On the right is black Dombini, left green Chandali, front red Rakshasi, behind yellow Singhali." (by Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrup (1497-1557). Chaturmukha also has a number of different variations in form and function. His body colour can change according to activity such as white for long-life, yellow for wealth and red for power. The objects in the hands can change and the colours of the four dakinis along with their hand objects can change. “Shri Vajra Chaturmukha Mahakala, the main face and the stacked face are both black, the two on the right and left are dark green. With four arms, the first two right and left hold a curved knife and blood filled skullcup to the heart. The lower right [holds] a sword. The lower left holds upraised a bone garland [of beads]. The brown hair bristles upwards; there are three eyes, bared fangs, lower lip distended, a crown of five dried skulls, a necklace of fifty fresh [heads], a brahmin’s cord, bone and snake ornaments. [He] stands in a manner with the right leg bent and the left straight; having an appearance of magnificent wrathfulness. On the right is black Dombini, left green Chandali, front red Rakshasi, behind yellow Singhali.” (by Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrup (1497-1557).

Chaturmukha also has a number of different variations in form and function. His body colour can change according to activity such as white for long-life, yellow for wealth and red for power. The objects in the hands can change and the colours of the four dakinis along with their hand objects can change.

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