Antique Tibetan Bronze Buddhist Sculpture Tantric Dakini Female Buddha

A Tibetan bronze figure representing Dakini Vajrayogini standing in alidhasa on a human figure, her right hand clutching a kartika or drigug (ritual flaying knife used in the tantric ceremonies of Vajrayana Buddhism), her left hand holding a kapala (mythical blood filled skull cup) and supporting a staff with vajra in her left arm, a necklace of skulls around her neck, she has the third eye on forehead, Standing on a lotus base.
 
Vajrayoginī is a Tantric Buddhist female Buddha and a ḍākiṇī. Vajrayoginī's essence is "great passion" (maharaga), a transcendent passion that is free of selfishness and illusion—she intensely works for the well-being of others and for the destruction of ego clinging. She is seen as being ideally suited for people with strong passions, providing the way to transform those passions into enlightened virtues.

She is an Anuttarayoga Tantra iṣṭadevatā (meditation deity) and her practice includes methods for preventing ordinary death, intermediate state (bardo) and rebirth (by transforming them into paths to enlightenment), and for transforming all mundane daily experiences into higher spiritual paths. Practices associated with her are Chöd and the Six Yogas of Naropa.

Vajrayoginī is often described with the epithet sarvabuddhaḍākiṇī, meaning "the ḍākiṇī [who is the Essence] of all Buddhas".

According to scholar Miranda Shaw, Vajrayoginī is "inarguably the supreme deity of the Tantric pantheon. No male Buddha, including her divine consort, Heruka Cakrasaṃvara, approaches her in metaphysical or practical import."

Period - 19th century or earlier

Condition - Good condition

Measurement - Height 13.2 cm

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