Editing Rudra (section)

==In Buddhism==
In [[Tibetan Buddhism]], according to the ''[[Orgyen Lingpa|Padma Thang Yig]]'', Rudra are devas (beings who live in heaven) at [[Shiva|Maheśvara]] heaven. Or formerly a human monk of noble origin named Koukuntri and then Tharpa Nakpo, who misunderstands dharma and engages in a life of vice and is condemned to [[Naraka (Buddhism)|Naraka]]. After 20.000 impure lives, he is eventually reborn as a demon in [[Sri Lanka]] by a prostitute who sleeps with three kinds of supernatural creatures, giving him three heads. His birth brings about plague and famine, so he is banished to a charnel ground, but he survives by devouring his mother's corpse and returns in order to conquer the world. Becoming the lover of the [[rakshasa]] queen Krodhishvari, he battles the gods, who are terrified of his extraordinary power and call the Buddhas and boddhisattvas for help.

The Buddha [[Vajrasattva]], who in a previous life was Tharpa Nakpo's master Thupka Zhonu, receives the mission to destroy Rudra, for which he is accompanied by [[Vajrapani]], himself a reborn Pramadeva or Denphak, Nakpo's servant and fellow disciple. They both assume the [[Wrathful deities|wrathful]] forms [[Hayagriva (Buddhism)|Hayagriva]] and [[Vajravārāhī|Vajravarahi]], who challenge Rudra with nine dances and battle him. Hayagriva turns diminutive and enters Rudra's anus, after which he becomes gigantic and destroys his body from inside out, submitting the demon and converting him to true dharma.<ref>{{cite book|author=Matthew T. Kapstein|title=The Tibetan Assimilation of Buddhism: Conversion, Contestation, and Memory|url=|year=2002|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780190288204|pages=170–174}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Robert A. Paul|title=The Sherpas of Nepal in the Tibetan Cultural Context: (The Tibetan Symbolic World : a Psychoanalytic Exploration)|url=|year=1989|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass|isbn=9788120805682|pages=153–155}}</ref>

In another version, Hayagriva impersonates Rudra and impregnates Krodishvari. As a result, he is reborn as the resultant child, [[Vajrakilaya|Vajrarakshasa]]. He takes over Rudra's realm and defeats him by plunging a three-pointed ''[[khaṭvāṅga]]'' into his chest. He then devours Rudra, purifies him in his stomach and excretes him as a protector of dharma, who hands over his army of demons to Vajrarakshasha as attendants.<ref>{{cite book|author= Jacob P. Dalton|title=The Taming of the Demons: Violence and Liberation in Tibetan Buddhism|url=|year=2011|publisher=Yale University Press|isbn=9780300153927|pages=184–190}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art|author=John C. Huntington, Dina Bangdel|date=2003|publisher=Serindia Publications|isbn=9781932476019|page=335}}</ref> Other versions replace Hayagriva with [[Ucchusma]], an emanation that Vajrapani draws from his own anus.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Ruthless Compassion: Wrathful Deities in Early Indo-Tibetan Esoteric Buddhist Art|author=Robert N. Linrothe|date=1999|publisher=Serindia Publications|isbn= 9780906026519|page=216}}</ref>