ABS 148
Code: ABS 148
Country: Tibet
Style: Late Pala Style
Date: 1400 - 1500
Dimensions in cm WxHxD: 9.2 x 13.5 x 5.8
Materials: Brass
Chakrasamvara in union
Trampling upon the obstacles to realization, the meditation deity (yidam) Chakrasamvara stands proudly, within a mass of wisdom fire. His slender, athletic, naked blue-skinned body is only adorned with bones and a tiger-skin loincloth. His twelve hands wield various attributes and unfurl a flayed elephant skin. He has four faces, his gaze is intense, and his fanged mouth is half-opened in an attitude known as “half-peaceful, half-wrathful”. In union, his red naked consort Vajravārāhī embraces his waist with her right leg and presents him with a blood-filled cranial cup. This peculiar form of the deity is linked to the specific tradition of an Indian master named Krishnacharya. There are many different forms of Chakrasamvara, a very popular yidam in Tibetan Buddhism, especially among the “new” schools of the second propagation of Dharma in Tibet.
Trampling upon the obstacles to realization, the meditation deity (yidam) Chakrasamvara stands proudly, within a mass of wisdom fire. His slender, athletic, naked blue-skinned body is only adorned with bones and a tiger-skin loincloth. His twelve hands wield various attributes and unfurl a flayed elephant skin. He has four faces, his gaze is intense, and his fanged mouth is half-opened in an attitude known as “half-peaceful, half-wrathful”. In union, his red naked consort Vajravārāhī embraces his waist with her right leg and presents him with a blood-filled cranial cup. This peculiar form of the deity is linked to the specific tradition of an Indian master named Krishnacharya. There are many different forms of Chakrasamvara, a very popular yidam in Tibetan Buddhism, especially among the “new” schools of the second propagation of Dharma in Tibet.