Devas, deities, and demons
Buddhist cosmology is filled with a plethora of deities, enlightening beings, and fantastic creatures. Some or wrathful denizens of the lower hells. Others are protector deities and demons who watch over the dharma and Buddhist practitioners.
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Aizen Myôô
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Asura (demigods)
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Badgers
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aka Tanuki
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Bonten
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Cakrasaṃvâra
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Deva Kings (General)
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Divine Boy
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Ekajâti
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Female deities
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Foxes
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aka Kitsune
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Fudō Myōō
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Gandharva
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Ghosts
(1)
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aka Hungry Ghosts
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aka Petta
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Preta
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Hachiman
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Heruka
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Hevajra
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HIMIKO Fujita
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aka Dragon Palace Princess
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Hotei
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Hāritī
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Inari
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Jigong Huofo
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aka Living Buddha Jigong
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Kami
(1)
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Inari
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Kasuga
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King Yama
(1)
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aka Yanluo
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aka Yama Raja
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The Ten Kings
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Kumano Gongen
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Kâlî
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Mahamayuri
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aka Peahen
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aka Kujaku Meiō
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Mahākāla
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aka Daikokuten
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Marîcî
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Mâra
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Nakayama Miki
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Nats (Burma)
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Neak Taa/Kmauit (Cambodia)
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Nure-onna
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aka Snake Woman
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Nâga and Naginî
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aka Dragon Deities
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aka snakelike beings
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Oni
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aka Ogres
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aka Trolls
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Phi (Thailand)
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Piśâca
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Prajñâpâramitâ
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Qingshui Zushi
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aka Patriarch of the Clear Stream
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Sannō
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Sarasvatī
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aka Benzaiten
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aka Benten
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aka Bicai tian
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Shuten Dôji
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Silla
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Spirits Cults
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Spirits in episodes of spirit possession
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Star/celestial deities
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Taishakuten
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Tengu
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Târa
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Vajravârâhî
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Vajrayoginî
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Vasudhârâ
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Vidyârâja
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aka Myôô
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Wrathful Deities (General)
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Yakas (Sri Lanka)
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Yakṣas
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aka tree spirits
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aka yakkha
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Yōkai
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Śakra
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aka Indra
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Śakti
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aka female partner deities
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Ḍâkinî (general)
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Date
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| Aizen-myôô, the Esoteric King of Lust: An Iconological Study | Goepper, Roger | 1993 |
| Amour, colère, couleur: Essais sur le bouddhisme au Japon | Frank, Bernard | 2000 |
| Amour, colère, couleur: Variations sur Aizen-myôô | Frank, Bernard | 1994 |
| Ancestors and Soteriology in African and Japanese Religions | Dovlo, Elom | 1993 |
| The Angry Ghost in Japan | Blacker, Carmen | 1981 |
| Animal Witchcraft in Japan | Blacker, Carmen | 1973 |
| The Badger in Japanese Folklore | Harada, Violet H | 1976 |
| Benten: Goddess of Luck and Watercolors | Chavez, Amy | 10 Jul. 2004 |
| Brahmanical Gods and Goddesses in Japan | Bakshi, Dwijendranath N | 1978 |
| Buddhism: Flammarion Iconographic Guides | Frédéric, Louis | 1995 |
| Chinese Maiden, Silla Monk: Zenmyô and Her Thirteenth-Century Japanese Audience | Brock, Karen L | 1990 |
| 'Chrysanthemun Tryst' and 'Fan Chü-ch'ing's Eternal Friendship': A Comparative Study of Two Ghost-Friendship Tales in Japan and China | Cheung, Dominic | Oct. 1977 |
| Concepts and Roles of God in Tenrikyo | Becker, Carl Bradley | 1979 |
| Conclusion: The Supernatural in Japanese Art | Addiss, Stephen | 1985 |
| Daiunzan Ryôanji Sekitei - The Stone Garden of the Mountain Dragon's Resting Temple: Soteriology and the Bodhimandala | Harper, Katherine Anne | 1994 |
| Dâkinî et l'Empereur: Mystique bouddhique de la royauté dans le Japon médiéval | Iyanaga, Nobumi | 1999 |
| Dancing the Doctrine: Honji Suijaku Thought in Kagura Performances | Averbuch, Irit | 2003 |
| Demons, Transnational Subjects, and the Fiction of Ohba Mihako | Hurley, Adrienne | 1991 |
| Les deva de la tradituion bouddhique et la société japonais: L'exemple d'Indra/Taishaku-ten | Frank, Bernard | 1990 |
| The Divine Boy in Japanese Art | Guth, Christine | 1987 |
| The Dragon in China and Japan | De Visser, Marinus Willem | 1913 |
| The Economics of Ritual Power | Grapard, Allan G. | 2000 |
| The Empowerment of Mountains | Evanhoff, Richard | 1995 |
| An Encounter with Oomoto: 'The Great Origin." | Franck, Frederick | 1975 |
| Folk Religions and the Cult of the Ancestors | Gorai, Shigeru | 1984 |
| The Fox and Badger in Japanese Folklore | De Visser, Marinus Willem | 1908 |
| Foxes in Japan | Goff, Janet E | 1997 |
| 'Ghost Temple' Hosts Fright Night | Asahi Evening News | Aug. 19, 2000 |
| Ghosts and the Japanese: Cultural Experience in Japanese Death Legends | Iwasaka Michiko, and Barre Toelken | 1994 |
| The Goddess Emerges from Her Cave: Fujita Himiko and Her Dragon Palace Family | Blacker, Carmen | 1994 |



















