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Stone image of a fierce and wrathful guardian of the Buddha, Narayana, at left entrance of a Buddhist temple in East Asia Royalty Free Stock Photo

Stone image of a fierce and wrathful guardian of the Buddha, Guhyapada, at right entrance of a Buddhist temple in East Asia Royalty Free Stock Photo

Stone image of a fierce and wrathful guardian of the Buddha, Narayana, at left entrance of a Buddhist temple in East Asia

Usually portrayed as a pair of figures that stand guarding temple entrance, nio are two wrathful guardians of the Buddha, standing today at the entrance of many Mahayana Buddhist temples in East Asia in the form of fierce muscular statues. The right statue is traditionally called Guhyapada and the left statue is traditionally called Narayana, and are seen as manifestations of Vajrapani, a protective Bodhisattva.