Mindrolling Monastery: Vajra Nairatmya
Gilt copper alloy
Mindrolling Monastery: Vajra Nairatmya
CHINA, Tibet, Lhoka
Vajra Nairatmya is the female consort of Hevajra and is usually represented as blue-black and dancing on human corpses. This early 16th century sculpture has a topknot of red flame-like hair behind a five-leaf crown. Above the round and staring eyes, the figure has a third wisdom eye. Her smiling features are colored. A garland of skulls hang on the consort’s naked upper body. The left hand holds a skull bowl, but the ritual chopper once grasped in the right hand is now missing. Wearing a skirt made of tiger skin, the statue sits in the posture of ease upon human corpses, a position representing dominance over illusory mind states.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, page 721.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Mindrolling Monastery: Vajra Nairatmya." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, vol. 11, 2016, pp. 721.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Mindrolling Monastery: Vajra Nairatmya" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M, 11:721.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Mindrolling Monastery: Vajra Nairatmya. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture G-M (Vol. 11, pp. 721).
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