 The Orientalist Dr. Nagendra Kumar Singh remarked that, "Every Indian religion has a Kubera after the Hindu prototype".Kubera is the Buddhist Vaiśravaṇa or Jambhala, and the Japanese Bishamon.The Buddhist Vaisravana, like the Hindu Kubera, is the regent of the North, a "Loka-pala" and the Lord of Yakshas.