Mahakala on the Tibetan Plain (Tib. བོད་ཐང་དགོན་པོ), is a small shrine containing an image of Mahakala. It is located in the heart of Kathmandu, on the north side of its busiest road, alongside Ratna Park. Some consider that this Mahakala image manifested spontaneously, but most learned masters agree that it is one of 108 Mahakala images carved by Nagarjuna that he placed in holy places, such as Bodhgaya, to guard the teachings of the Buddha. This particular form of Mahakala, with one face, two

Mahākāla is a deity common to Hinduism and Tantric Buddhism. In Buddhism, Mahākāla is regarded as the sacred Dharmapāla ("Protector of the Dharma"), while in Hinduism, Mahākāla is a fierce manifestation of the Hindu god Shiva and the consort of the goddess Mahākālī; he most prominently appears in the Kalikula sect of Shaktism. Mahākāla also appears as a protector deity in Vajrayana, Chinese Esoteric, and Tibetan Buddhism and also in the Chàn and Shingon traditions. He is known as Dàhēitiān and D

Statue art of Mahakala Mahakala Six-Armed Mahakala originally came from Khyungpo Nenjor, the founder of the Shangpa Kagyu, and spread to all the lineages—Sakya, Nyingma, and Gelugpa—as well as various Kagyu lineages. Nowadays he is favored by the Gelugpa order of Tibetan Buddhism, and in this manifestation is considered to be a fierce and powerful emanation of Avalokiteśvara, the bodhisattva of compassion. He is adorned with the crown of five skulls represents the transmutation of the five negat