Asia
- Chinese folk religion, both past and present, includes a myriad of tutelary deities. Exceptional individuals may become deified after death. Guan Yu is a well-known tutelary from the Three Kingdoms period.
- In Korean shamanism, jangseung and sotdae were placed at the edge of villages to frighten off demons. They were also worshiped as deities.
- In Shinto, the spirits, or kami, which give life to human bodies come from nature and return to it after death. Ancestors are therefore themselves tutelaries to be worshiped.
- In Hinduism, tutelary deities are known as ishta-devata and Kuldevi or Kuldevta. Gramadevata are guardian deities of villages. Devas can also be seen as tutelary. Shiva is patron of yogis and renunciants. The City Goddesses include:
- Mumbadevi (Mumbai)
- Sachchika (Osian)
Kuladevis include:
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- Ambika (Porwad)
- Mahalakshmi (Agrawal)
- Thai provincial capitals have tutelary city pillars and palladiums. The guardian spirit of a house is known as Chao Thi or Phra Phum. Almost every house in Bangkok has a miniature shrine housing this tutelary deity, known as a spirit house.
- Tibetan Buddhism has Yidam as a tutelary deity. Dakini is the patron of those who seek knowledge.
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