Rudra

Rudra is the embodiment of rampant egohood, a being who assumed a powerful malevolent form, having misapplied the practice of the tantras in a previous life, and who was consequently subdued by the wrathful means of the buddhas

Coleman’s glossary provides the authoritative Tibetan Buddhist theological definition of Rudra as the mythological archetype of ego-inflation and tantric misappropriation, subdued by wrathful buddha-emanations.

Coleman, Graham, The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Penguin Classics), 2005thesis

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invocations to Rudra in, 220; on introversion, 381f; on origin of world, 333; on sacrifice, 416, 420; on sun, 317

Jung’s index situates Rudra within the Rig-Veda passages he analyzes in connection with introversion, sacrifice, and solar symbolism, indicating Rudra’s importance to his mythological argument.

Jung, Carl Gustav, Symbols of Transformation, 1952supporting

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myriad eyes, of Rudra, 122; symbolism of, 268

Jung isolates the image of Rudra’s myriad eyes as a specific symbolic motif, linking it to a broader discussion of eye symbolism and the numinous omniscience of the dangerous divine.

Jung, Carl Gustav, Symbols of Transformation, 1952supporting

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Rudra, 456n

Jung’s index in Psychology and Alchemy cites Rudra in a footnote, indicating cross-referential usage of the figure in his alchemical-mythological comparative framework.

Jung, Carl Gustav, Psychology and Alchemy, 1944supporting

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Siva, 427; Mountain of, 420; see also Rudra; Saivism

Eliade’s index cross-references Rudra with Shiva and Shaivism within a discussion of shamanic possession, fire, and trance, placing the deity within a broader comparative framework of ecstatic religion.

Eliade, Mircea, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, 1951supporting

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Saivism, 4340; see also Siva

A peripheral index entry in Eliade that situates Shaivism — and by extension Rudra — within the broader shamanic-sacrificial complex he is mapping, without direct elaboration.

Eliade, Mircea, Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy, 1951aside

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