Archetype and protector deities can have outer, inner, secret, and sometimes ultimate forms. The Outer Yamaraja, with his buffalo head, is the form normally represented. He confronts outer obstacles and seeks to protect practitioners and monasteries from doughts, bandits, and other misfortune.
There is also an Inner Yamaraja, a similar form usually represented with a human-type terrific face. The true spiritual obstacles in one´s life are not outer circumstances, but inner defilements such as fear, hate, pride, and jealousy; so he inner Yamaraja is invoked to destroy them. He is an protector on and emotional, spiritual plane.
There is also the Secret Yamaraja, who works in the instinctive wellsprings of one´s being and brings correspondingly deep positive energy out from those inner realms.
Finally, there is the Ultimate Yamaraja, the encounter with death. In the moment of death the mind experiences the self as obliterated, but as it meets nothingness it sees that instead of obliteration it has reached selflessness, the inexorable web of relativity. So death is a gateway, and the mind opens to enlightement
With dark blue body lunging wildly across the back of his bull mount, Yama waves a bone-white skull-headed club and lasso. He glares into the face of his consort, the blond-haired Chamundi, who is also blue, and who straddles the haunches of the bull and Yamas left leg. She holds a trident and offers Yama a skull bowl full of demon-blood elixir.
Both have three eyes and five-skull crowns, his is topped by a fierce vajra, symbolizing his having been tamed and bound to an oath of benevolent service by Manjushri Yamantaka.
[Source: "Wisdom and compassion – The sacred art of Tibet from Marylin M. Rhie and Robert A. F. Thurman , Page 108:
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