The Ten Wrathful Ones

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The Ten Wrathful Ones (Skt. daśakrodha; Tib. ཁྲོ་བོ་བཅུ་, trowo chu, Wyl. khro bo bcu) — the ten main deities in the mandala of Vajrakilaya, surrounding the main deity in each of the ten directions.

  • Humkara (Skt. Hūṃkāra; Tib. ཧཱུྃ་ཀ་ར་) in union with Dorje Drachin (Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་སྒྲ་འབྱིན, Wyl. rdo rje sgra 'byin ma; Skt. Śābdavajra; Eng. Resounding Vajra), at the zenith
  • Krodhavijaya (Skt.; Tib. རྣམ་རྒྱལ, Wyl. rnam rgyal) in union with Dorje Nyema (Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་སྙ྄ེམས་མ; Eng. Haughty Vajra), in the east
  • Niladanda (Skt. Nīladaṇḍa; Tib. དབྱུག་སྔོན་པོ, Wyl. dbyug pa sngon po) in union with Dorje Dermo (Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་སྡེར་མོ, Wyl. rdo rje sder mo; Eng. Vajra Claw), in the south-east
  • Yamantaka (Skt. Yamāntaka; Tib. གཤིན་རྗེ, Wyl. gshin rje gshed) in union with Durtrö Dakmo, or Dorje Durtrö Dak (Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་དུར་ཁྲོད་བདག; Skt. Śmāśānikā; Lady of the Charnel Ground), in the south
  • Arya Achala (Skt. Ārya Acala; Tib. མི་གཡོ་བ, Wyl. mi g.yo ba) in union with Dorje Tünkhung (Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་གཏུན་ཁུང; Skt. Vajramūśikā; Eng. Vajra Mortar), in the south-west
  • Hayagriva (Skt. Hayagrīva; Tib. རྟ་མགྲིན, Wyl. rta mgrin) in union with Dorje Tummo (Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་གཏུམ་མོ; Skt. Vajracaṇḍikā; Eng. Fierce Vajra), in the west
  • Aparajita (Skt. Aparājita; Tib. འདོད་རྒྱལ) in union with Dorje Danyem (Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་མདའ་སྙེམས, Wyl. rdo rje mda' snyems; Eng. Haughty Arrow Vajra), in the north-west
  • Amritakundali (Skt. Amṛtakuṇḍalī; Tib. བདུད་རྩི, Wyl. bdud rtsi 'khyil ba) in union with Dorje Lungchin Ma or Düdtsi Lungchin Ma (Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་རླུང་འབྱིན་མ; Skt. Vāyuvegā; Eng. Wind Blowing Vajra), in the north
  • Trilokavijaya (Skt. Amṛtakuṇḍalī; Tib. ཁམས་གསུམ) in union with Dorje Söché Ma (Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་གསོད་བྱེད་མ, Wyl. gsod byed ma; Skt. Ghātakā; Eng. Vajra Slayer), in the north-east
  • Mahabala (Skt. Mahābala; Tib. སྟོབས་ཆེན) in union with Dorje Kulche Ma (Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་སྐུལ་མ; Skt. Vajrāveśī; Eng. Vajra Exhortation), at the nadir