In the Buddhist faith, the Four Heavenly Kings are four gods, each of whom watches over one cardinal direction of the world.
Read more about Four Heavenly Kings: Nomenclature, The Four Heavenly Kings
Famous quotes containing the words heavenly and/or kings:
“Seeing myself well lost once more, I sighed,
“Where, where in Heaven am I? But don’t tell me!
O opening clouds, by opening on me wide.
Let’s let my heavenly lostness overwhelm me.””
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“If you turn aside from following me, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes...then...Israel will become a proverb and a taunt among all peoples.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 9:6-7.