Thubten Dhargye Ling Monastery: Dakini
Gilt copper alloy
Thubten Dhargye Ling Monastery: Dakini
CHINA, Tibet, Qamdo
This sculpture dates from the 15th to 16th century and depicts a dakini from Vajrayana Buddhism. She wears a skull crown that is supplemented by the skulls on the khatvanga staff she clasps across her body and the garland of severed heads that swings from her neck to her knees. She has a third wisdom eye and is posed in the dancing posture on a prostrate corpse. She carries a damaged vajra-handled flaying knife in her raised right hand, and cups a skull bowl at her breast in the left hand. An inverted lotus pedestal supports the figure.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, page 1210.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Thubten Dhargye Ling Monastery: Dakini." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, vol. 13, 2016, pp. 1210.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Thubten Dhargye Ling Monastery: Dakini" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z, 13:1210.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Thubten Dhargye Ling Monastery: Dakini. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture St-Z (Vol. 13, pp. 1210).
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