Wrathful deities in Buddhism can be terrifying, monstrous and demonic in appearance but they are actually the good guys! They are deliberately more ferocious than the demons they are subduing.
People who might be casually interested in Buddhism are often puzzled, even horrified, by tantric Buddhist deities depicted as ferocious personas. At first exposure, they might seem almost demonic, sporting garlands of human heads, with multiple terrifying faces, often stepping on human forms.
There's no denying the extraordinary power of tantric deity images. These forms are deliberately more terrible than demons they represent
forces that help us transform these very demons. Whether you see them as psychological shadows of the mind, or tangible entities, from a Buddhist point of view they help us remove the obstacles to enlightenment.
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