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with a bodhisattva, they became considered as the manifestations of the bodhisattvas themselves and/or of buddhas, who are believed to assume terrifying forms as a means to save sentient beings out of compassion for them. A belief prevalent in the Japanese tradition known as the (???, "bodies of the three wheels") theory for instance posits that five Wisdom Kings are the fierce incarnations (????, , lit. "embodiments of the wheel

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