Mahakala, Glorious Lord of Pristine Awareness, with one face and two hands.  Fiercely wrathful, staring with three bulging round eyes, mouth gaping with bared fangs and hanging black snakes for hair.  Holding aloft in the right hand, pointed to the sky, a flaming lance, and in the left a poisoned heart and lasso.

Mahakala is adorned with a crown of five dry skulls, earrings and a skirt of fresh human heads, he wears a cloak covered with a human skin. Tucked into the sash at the waist is a ghandi stick made of sandalwood.  He is dressed in boots, with the right leg bent and left straight standing atop two human corpses, thus symbolizing the death of negativities and the complete uprooting of negative patterns to such a point that, like a dead body, they will not come to life.  Mahakala stands surrounded by the burning flames of pristine awareness.

Both Hindus and Buddhists worship Mahakala.  Buddhists consider him as a manifestation of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara.  Mahakala is always seen in the entrance of Buddhist monasteries.  He is regarded as the protector of the Buddhist doctrine.

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