An update from Shar Gaden Monastery of a four-day Taktse Dubcho Ritual in March 2010. This ritual is the auto-initiation of the 13 deity Yamantaka.

Yamantaka is a Mahayana Buddhist yidam of the highest yoga tantra class in Vajrayana, popular within Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. Seen as a wrathful manifestation of Manjushri, the bodhisattva of wisdom, Yamantaka also functions as a dharmapala in other contexts.

Yamantaka is a Sanskrit name that can be broken down into two primary elements: Yama, the God of Death; and Antaka, or "terminator". Thus, Yamantaka's name literally means 'The terminator of death".

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