Fudo-myoo

Fudo-myoo East Asia
The guardian of wisdom, ‘the unshakable spirit’. One of several forces or formulae personified in Japanese Buddhism. Another is Aizen-myoo, who represents love transformed into desire for illumination. Terrible figures to behold, the wrath of the myoo is only directed against things liable to distract the pilgrim from the true path. Fudo-myoo, an intense saver of souls, is the patron of ascetics.