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Yama Strikesby ~FunkCrusader

Traditional Art / Drawings / Macabre & Horror

" A holy man once approached the higher Lamas in search of enlightenment. Instructed to spend fifty years in deep meditation isolated in a cave, the man would attain enlightenment.
Upon the last hour of the last day of the last month of the forty-ninth year, two robbers entered the hermit's cave with a bull they had stolen. The robbers cut off the bull's head and proceeded to butcher it when they noticed the man
sitting quietly in the back. A witness to their crime, the robbers decided to kill the holy man. 'I am within the last minutes of attaining enlightenment. If you kill me, the past fifty years of my life with have been for nothing!'
pleaded the holy man. The robbers, ignoring the man's pleas, severed his head.
At the moment of death, the holy man took the ferocious form of Yama, placing the bull's head upon his body. Killing the two robbers, he made cups from their skulls to drink their blood. Insatiable for taste of human blood, Yama
attacked Tibet, wearing a crown and necklace of several heads made from his victims.
The Tibetans appealed to the deity of wisdom, Manjushri, for help. Manjushri assumed the for of Yamantaka, the conqueror of death, to defeat Yama. Upon learning the strength of wisdom and never attaining enlightenment, the
wrathful Yama instead became entrusted as a protector of Buddhism."

- taken from the little sign in front of the statue of Yama at the Field Museum in Chicago. I always wanted to do a picture of Yama, and I suppose this one qualifies. For now.

2 hours in moleskine, no ref, Pens, OceanLab

~gutydecadi Jan 14, 2010

Impresionante, muy buen dibujo 8)

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"Si todo sale bien la cosa se pondrá muy fea"

~FunkCrusader Jan 14, 2010 Student General Artist

gracias

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GYARADOS is confused!

It hurt itself in it's confusion!

GYARADOS fainted!

~Panov Oct 18, 2009

The story was intriguing, I've never heard it before. Thanks for sharing.

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Yep^^

~y3an Dec 21, 2008

I just love your job

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And crawling, on the planet's face, some insects, called the human race, lost in time, lost in space and the meaning.

~dragstripdemon Aug 21, 2008

Wow, fucking cool dude

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You can be right, or you can be happy. _{busse brødre}

~FunkCrusader Aug 21, 2008 Student General Artist

thanks man

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GYARADOS is confused!

It hurt itself in it's confusion!

GYARADOS fainted!

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