Origin Location | China |
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Date Range | 1400 - 1499 |
Lineages | Sakya, Gelug and Buddhist |
Material | Ground: Textile Image, Embroidery |
Collection | Margot and Tom Pritzker |
Shri Hevajra (Tibetan: pal gye pa dor je'i lha gu'i kyil khor) according to the system of Mahasiddha Virupa based on the Hevajra Tantra. Bibliographic reference: Hevajra Tantraraja Nama
Sanskrit: Hevajra Tibetan: Gye pa dor je
"...Shri Hevajra with a body blue in colour, eight faces, sixteen hands and four legs. The main face is blue, right white, left red, upper face smoky; the two remaining pairs of faces are black. Each face has three eyes and four bared fangs; yellow hair flowing upwards; the top of the head is marked with a vishvavajra. The sixteen hands hold sixteen skullcups. The first right holds a white elephant, the first left holds the yellow God of Earth; these two embrace the Mother. In the second right is a blue horse; third - ass with a white patch; fourth - yellow bull; fifth - ash-coloured camel; sixth - red man; seventh - blue sharabha; eighth - cat with a white patch. In the second left hand is the white God of Water; third - red God of Fire; fourth - green God of Air; fifth - white God of the Moon; sixth - red God of the Sun; seventh - blue Yama; eighth - yellow Holder of Wealth. Each head has a crown of five dry human skulls; and a necklace of fifty fresh heads; six bone ornaments; the two right legs are extended, on the thighs the toes of the two folded left legs are pressing in the half-[vajra] posture in a dancing manner; possessing the nine sentiments of dancing: grace, strength and ugliness; laughter, ferocity and frightful; compassion, fury and peace. In the lap is the mother Vajra Nairatmya, with a body blue in colour, one face, two hands, three eyes; yellow hair flowing upwards; right a curved knife, left holding a skullcup and embracing the father; five dry human skulls as a crown; a necklace of fifty dry [skulls]; five bone ornaments; left leg extended and the right drawn up embracing the father. Both are standing in the middle of a blazing fire of pristine awareness." (Ngagwang Legpa).
At the upper left is mahasiddha Virupa, the Lord of Yoga. At the upper right is the Tibetan teacher Jamchen Choje Shakya Yeshe wearing monastic robes and a black hat.
At the lower left is Panjarnata Mahakala. At the lower center is Vaishravana Riding a Lion. At the lower left side is Shri Devi Dudsolma riding a donkey.
Hevajra Lineage on Reverse: Vajradhara, Nairatmya, Virupa, Kanha, Damarupa, Avadhutipa, Gayadhara, Drogmi Lotsawa, Seton Kunrig, Sachen Kunga Nyingpo, Sonam Tsemo, Dragpa Gyaltsen, Sakya Pandita, Chogyal Pagpa, Zhang Konchog Pal, Naza Dragpugpa, Choje Sonam, Lama Dampa Sonam Gyaltsen, Shakya Yeshe.
Jeff Watt 2-2019
Inscription on the reverse of the textile:
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཆང་ན་མ། oM A Vajradhara Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་བདག་མེད་མ་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A Nairatama la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་འབིར་ཝ་པ་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A Birwapa la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་ནག་པོ་པ་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A Nagpo Pa la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་ཌ་མ་རུ་པ་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A Damarupa la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་ཝ་དྷུ་ཏི་པ་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A Awadhutipa la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་གྷ་ཡ་དྷ་ར་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A Gayadhara la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་འབྲོག་མི་ཤཱཀྱ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A 'brog mi shAkya ye shes la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨ་སེ་སྟོན་ཀུན་རིག་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A Se ston kun rig la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་ས་ཆེན་ཀུན་སྙིང་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A Sa chen kun snying la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་སློབ་དཔོན་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་བསོད་ནམས་རྩེ་མོ་ལ་ན་མོ།oM A slob dpon bsod nams rtse mo la na mo
ཨོམ་ཨཱ་རྗེ་བཙུན་གྲགས་པ་རྒྱལ་མཚན་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A grags pa rgyal mtshan la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་ས་སྐྱ་པནྜི་ཏ་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A saskya pan+Di ta la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་ཆོས་རྒྱལ་འཕགས་པ་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A chos rgyal 'phags pa la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་ཞང་དཀོན་མཆོག་དཔལ་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A zhang dkon mchog dpal la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་ན་བཟའ་བྲག་ཕུག་པ་བསོད་ནམས་དཔལ་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A na bza' brag phug pa la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་མཚུངས་མེད་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྗེ་བསོད་ནམས་ཞབས་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A chos rje bsod nams zhabs la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་དཔལ་ལྡན་བླ་མ་དམ་པ་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A dpal ldan bla ma dam pa la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་ཨ་མོ་གྷ་ཤྲི་བྷ་ཏྲ་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A a mo gha shri bha tra la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་ཤཱཀྱ་རྒྱལ་ཚབ་འགྲོ་བའི་སྐྱབས་གཅིག་པོ་ལ་ན་མོ། oM A shakya rgyal tshab 'gro ba'i skyabs la Namo
ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་ཡེ་ཤེས་ལྔ་ལྡན་སྐུ་བཞི་ལྷུན་གྲུབ། ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་བྱམས་ཆེན་མཁྱེན་བརྩེའི་མངའ་བདག་རིན་པོ་ཆེ་ལ་ན་མོ།
ཨོཾ་ཨ་ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྒྱལ་པོའི་ཞལ་སྔ་ན་ལ་ན་མོ། ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་བདག་བསོད་རྒྱལ་གནང་ལ་ན་མོ།
[Followed by the Hevajra, Nairatmya and retinue deity mantras, concluding with the Ye Dharma verse].
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