The name Bhairav is derived from Sanskrit words 'Bhaya' meaning fear or terror and 'Avatara' indicating an incarnation or manifestation of a higher power. He is associated with Shiva, implying a deep connection to the divine.
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Multifaceted, including destructive and transformative aspects of Shiva's powers. His transformation from antagonist to beneficiary suggests he can be both malevolent and benevolent depending on context or intentions.
Bagalāmukhī
Bagalāmukhī (also Bagalā, Pitambarā-devi) is a Tantric Hindu goddess counted among the ten Mahāvidyās. She is a manifestation of the Dēvī whose specialized power (stambhana) is invoked to immobilize, silence, or control enemies and hostile speech, and to grant certain siddhis to devotees.
Dhūmāvatī
Dhūmāvatī (Dhumavati) is one of the ten Mahavidyas in Tantric Shakta traditions, a fearsome aspect of the Great Goddess associated with widowhood, inauspiciousness, cremation grounds, and desolation. She is represented as an old crone figure and figures in Tantric iconographic and devotional material as the embodiment of loss and marginality.
Beyonder
The Beyonder is a Marvel Comics fictional extra‑multiversal sentient energy being described as the conscious manifestation of the 'Beyond‑Realm'. Originally presented as a near‑omnipotent entity who abducted Marvel heroes to Battleworld, later continuity retcons identify it with Cosmic Cube energy or as a child unit of a race called the Beyonders.
Beyul Guardian Spirits
Place‑bound guardian spirits associated with beyul (Tibetan sBas yul), the concealed or hidden valleys of the Himalayas and Tibetan plateau. They function as protectors and gatekeepers of these sacred, fortress‑like lands and are integrated into Nyingma treasure (terton) traditions and local Himalayan ritual practice.
Bhadra (भद्र)
Bhadra is a Sanskrit word meaning 'good', 'fortunate', or 'auspicious' that functions in Hindu literature as a personal name and epithet applied to multiple distinct mythic persons and forms (queens, yaksha, goddess-forms, kings, and others) rather than a single unified supernatural being.
Bhadrakali
Bhadrakali is a fierce form of the Hindu supreme goddess Adi Shakti worshipped especially in South India. She functions as a martial and protective divine person who destroys wickedness in mythic narratives, protects women and lineages, and is integrated into Shaiva, Vaishnava, and Shakta registers.
Bhagavatī
Bhagavatī is an honorific Sanskrit epithet applied to revered female divinities in Hinduism and Mahayana Buddhism rather than a single individualized spirit. The title functions as a respectful form of address for goddesses such as Sarasvati, Lakshmi, Parvati and certain Buddhist female deities (e.g., Cundā) and is the feminine counterpart to Bhagavān.
Bhairava
Bhairava is a fierce Shaivite deity and tantric figure—an intense manifestation of Shiva—worshipped across Hindu and Vajrayāna Buddhist traditions as executor of divine punishment, guardian of sacred sites, and a tantric teacher/meditational yidam.
Bhairavi
Bhairavi (Sanskrit: भैरवी) is a Mahāvidya — a fierce form of the Great Mother in Hindu tantric and Puranic traditions. She appears both as a deity, consort of Bhairava, and as a title or attainment for a female tantric adept (a realized yogini). Iconography and texts portray her as awe-inspiring and ambivalently maternal: protective to devotees and terrible to the wicked.
Bhaisajyaguru
Bhaisajyaguru (Bhaiṣajya‑guru; Medicine Buddha) is a Mahāyāna buddha associated with healing, medicine, and a pure land called Vaiḍūryanirbhāsa (Pure Lapis Lazuli). He functions as a therapeutic savior whose remedies operate through the "medicine of his teachings," vows, devotional practice, and radiance associated with lapis‑lazuli light.
Bhaiṣajyarāja (Medicine King Bodhisattva)
Bhaiṣajyarāja (Sanskrit: Bhaiṣajyarāja; Chinese: 藥王 Yào Wáng) is a Mahāyāna bodhisattva associated with healing, medicine, and supreme self‑offering. He appears in the Lotus Sūtra and in visualization/contemplation sutras and is often connected ritually and iconographically with the Medicine Buddha (Bhaiṣajyaguru) and with the paired bodhisattva Bhaiṣajyasamudgata.
Bhaiṣajyasamudgata
A Mahāyāna bodhisattva associated with the therapeutic activity of the Buddha and invoked in visualization (Guan) sūtras. He is named alongside the Medicine King (Bhaiṣajyarāja) and is the co-subject of a dedicated contemplation sūtra used in meditative-healing practice.
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