Item: Vajrasattva (Buddhist Deity)

Tibetan: རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ། Chinese: 金刚萨埵

(item no. 15131)

Origin Location	Tibet
Date Range	1800 - 1899
Lineages	Uncertain
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Collection	Shechen Archives - photographs

Classification: Deity

Interpretation / Description

Vajrasattva (Tibetan: dor je sem pa. English: the Vajra Hero of Enlightenment): peaceful in appearance, white in colour, with one face and two hands holding a vajra to the heart and a bell at the hip.

Jeff Watt 11-2000