Antique Tibetan Silver Figure Of Dakini Vajrayogini Tantric Female Buddha Buddhist Sculpture

A Tibetan silver alloy figure representing Dakini Vajrayogini standing in alidhasa on two human figures, 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 and skulls in her left arm, she has the third eye on forehead. The lotus base is still sealed and is decorated with a double vajra. It is rare to find such sculptures made in silver and not bronze.

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 - 18th century

Condition - Good condition

Measurement - Height 12.2 cm

Provenance - Collection privée - Zurich - Suisse

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