Peaceful, Wrathful Deities

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Manju
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Peaceful, Wrathful Deities

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I have a question reg. the split into peaceful and wrathful deities.

What sense does it make during development stage and where does it come from (Bon etc.) ?

One explanation could be:
What scares us is wrathful, what we find pleasant is peaceful.
Attachment versus aversion ?

I am a practitioner of Kunzang Tuktig, Chokgyur Lingpa Terma, since several years.
My post in the Tibetan Buddhism Forum was meant for starting a discussion about what people think or know about the separation into peaceful-wrathful and where it might come from.

I could very well imagine that Bon practices went in that way and were taken over into Nyingma-liturgy.

To work with deities (union of emptiness+appearance) one does not need a split into peaceful-wrathful per se.
This is what I thought......

Of course one could say:

Just practice it, do not think about it :smile:

I am practicing, ...thinking comes between sessions.

Manju
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