 The Japanese Bishamon, also known as Tamon-Ten, is one of the Jūni-Ten (十二天), a group of 12 Hindu deities adopted in Buddhism as guardian deities ("deva" or "ten") who are found in or around Buddhist shrines.The Juni-Ten group of twelve deities were created by adding four deities to the older grouping of Happou-Ten, the eight guardians of the directions.Bishamon rules over the north, like his Hindu counterpart Kubera.