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'''Hariti''' (Skt. ''Hāritī''; Tib. ''phrog ma'') — a wild, much-feared yakshini who used to devour children, until she was tamed by the Buddha and became a protector of the Dharma.
'''Hariti''' (Skt. ''Hāritī''; Tib. ''phrog ma'') — a wild, much-feared yakshini who used to devour children, until she was tamed by the Buddha and became a protector of the Dharma.
==Further Reading==
* [https://www.asafas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/dl/publications/no_1101/AA111_1_sree.pdf Sree Padma. “Hariti: Village Origins, Buddhist Elaborations and Saivite Accommodations.” In ''Asian and African Area Studies, 11 (1),'' 2011: 1-17.]


==Notes==
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Revision as of 11:50, 10 August 2017

Hariti (Skt. Hāritī; Tib. phrog ma) — a wild, much-feared yakshini who used to devour children, until she was tamed by the Buddha and became a protector of the Dharma.

Further Reading


Notes