A correction about Daikoku

Sorry folks

I was a little upset about statements concerning Japan Classical Schools of
Buddhism, and din't sent the exactly correct information of Daikoku-Ten

Daikoku-Ten is the japanese translation of the sanskrit Mahâkâla, and is a
fierce wrathful deity who inhabits cemeteries, an War God called to bestow
victory over evil and unfair enemies, fight evil spirits, and in some few
aspects, to ensure prosperity, destroying obstacles.

In Japan, due to the Shinbutsu Shugo phenomena, it was associated with the
Shinto God Okuninushi no Mikoto (that is my correction), and there is
worshiped with a shinto image that is not in anyway wrathful, but all
smilling and happy.

The god of wealth and farmers, Daikoku usually wears a hood and stands on
bales of rice, carrying a large sack of treasure slung over his shoulder and
holding a small magic mallet. Daikoku is also the deity of the kitchen and
provider of food.

In the original wrathful form (away from the Shimbutsu Shugo phenomena and
its respecive association), he was worshiped in India as a fierce aspect of
Shiva, but in Buddhism, as one of the Eleven faces of Avalokites'vâra
Bodhisattva (jap. Juichi-men Kanjizai Bosatsu)

As an warrior's deity, probable it as subject of dedication of some samurais
who practiced study and austerity on tantric buddhism, like Miyamoto Musashi
did, dedicating himself to Fudô Myo Ou (Sansk. Acâlanatha Vidyarâja).

As in association with the Shinto Deity Okuninushi no Mikoto, he is one of
the Seven Gods of Good Fortune (Shichi Fuku-Jin), but I am not able to find
out if such associated practice of the Seven Gods was just a Japanese
phenomena derivated from the Shimbutsu Shugo, or if it was in some other
way, in other countries's vajrayana buddhism (Mahâ Kala is not (under my
knowledge) present in any other form of devotional buddhism, Sutra Buddhism
or Dhyana Buddhism or in any of the other schools of Mahayana Buddhism, but
surelly not in any of theravadim schools)

Sorry for the mistake

Octavio Augusto Okimoto Alves de Carvalho
São Paulo - SP Brazil