Matarashin (also known as Matarishin) is the principal image of the Tendai Sect, specially in the Genshi Kimyodan (a secret ceremony of the Tendai sect), and is also regarded as a guardian deity of the Amida-kyo Sutra and nenbutsu (Buddhist invocation).
摩多羅神（またら・しん、あるいは摩怛利神：またりしん）は、天台宗、特に玄旨帰命壇における本尊で、阿弥陀経および念仏の守護神ともされる。