Virūpākṣa Guǎngmù Sweatshirt Hoodie

Virūpākṣa

Guǎngmù Tiānwáng (廣目天王)is the guardian of the western direction. He lives on the western part of Sumeru. He is leader of the nāgas. He possesses the divine eye  (Skt. divyena cakṣuṣā), which allows him to see great distances as well as the karma of sentient beings.He is commonly depicted as having red skin and clad in armor. He is often depicted as gripping a red naga or a red lasso in his hands, which he uses to snare people into the Buddhist faith. In Chinese temples, he is often enshrined within the Hall of the Heavenly Kings (天王殿) with the other three Heavenly Kings. He is also regarded as one of the Twenty Devas (二十諸天) or the Twenty-Four Devas (二十四諸天 ), a group of Buddhist dharmapalas who manifest to protect the Dharma.