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Mahākāla (Sanskrit) is a Dharmapala ("protector of dharma") in Vajrayana Buddhism, and a deity in Chinese and Japanese Buddhism, particularly in the Vajrayana school. He is known as Daheitian (大黑天) in Chinese and Daikokuten (大黒天) in Japanese. Mahākāla belongs to the fourth hierarchy of deities.
In Hinduism, Mahakala is a name of Shiva (as, for example, at the Shiva temple in Ujjain that is more than once mentioned by Kālidāsa), but it is also a name of one of his principal attendants (Sanskrit: gaṇa): along with Nandi, which is one of Shiva's watchmen, and so is often represented outside the main doorway of early North Indian temples.
Mahākāla is a Sanskrit bahuvrihi of mahā (महत्; "great") and kāla (काल; "time"). The literal Tibetan translation is "Nagbo Qenbo" (Tibetan: ནག་པོ་ཆེན་པོ།) though, when referring to this deity, Tibetans usually use the word "Goinbo" (མགོན་པོ།) [the translation of the Sanskrit word Nāth meaning "lord" or "protector"] instead.
Mahākāla is relied upon in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism. However, he is depicted in a number of variations, each with distinctly different qualities and aspects. He is also regarded as the emanation of different beings in different cases, namely Avalokiteshvara (Tib: spyan ras gzigs) or Chakrasamvara (Tib: Korlo Demchog, Wylie: ’khor lo bde mchog).
Mahakala - short daily practice
Mahakala prayer
mahakala prayer
Mahakala Sadhana - Dag-kye
MAHAKALA
Mahakala Sadhana (short version)
嘛哈嘎拉心咒藏式(the mantra of Mahakala, in Tibetan chanting style)(真佛宗adam - 282)
Mahakala Puja Day 1
Mahakala Puja Day 2
MAHAKALA - Devil's Music (full album HD) [featuring graphic animation]
HH Karmapa presides over the Mahakala Tsenma puja - Pre-Losar 2012
Kamal & Gyuto Monks of Tibet - Mahakala Chant
Mahakala calls to you
Souls are burning, power coursing through
Bloodlust once consumed us
Banished it to the deep
The beast now has left us
In smoky mountains sleep
The demon rise again
Never will peace be found
A tyrant's madness rules
From the gods not a sound
We shed blood in the past
The instinct now awaken
Our will never outlast
Our land not forsaken
There's no way past
Dormant awaken
There's no way past
Dormant awaken
Will not outlast
Never forsaken
Mahakala calls to you
Souls are burning, power coursing through
Deadly white Sun
Blocks out the sky
The demon rise again
Never will peace abound
A tyrant's madness rules
The gods cannot be found
Ingrained in my eyes
Crimson of foes and I
Ocean of blood below
Machetes in the sky
Mahakala calls to you
Souls are burning, power coursing through
Mahakala calls to you