Potala Palace: Vajravarahi
Copper
Potala Palace: Vajravarahi
CHINA, Tibet, Lhasa
Vajravarahi is a semi-wrathful wisdom deity and the Vajrayana consort of Cakrasamvara. Here she is depicted with a sow’s head and a stocky human body, as she assumes the warrior stance. A red double-petaled nimbus surrounds the head that wears a skull crown and large earrings decorated with crossed thunderbolts. The body is adorned with turquoise studded jewelry and a garland of skulls that wraps around the arms, hanging almost to the ground.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 829.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Potala Palace: Vajravarahi." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 829.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Potala Palace: Vajravarahi" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:829.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Potala Palace: Vajravarahi. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 829).
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