Origin Location | Bhutan |
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Date Range | 1800 - 1899 |
Lineages | Buddhist |
Material | Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton |
Collection | Rubin Museum of Art |
Vajra Nairatmya (Tib.: dor je dag me ma): from the Hevajra Tantra.
"Vajra Nairatma, [with] a body black in colour, one face and two hands. The right [hand] holds aloft a curved knife and the left a skullcup to the heart, and carrying a katvanga [in the bend of] the elbow. Having three eyes and bared fangs. Yellow hair bristling upwards. A crown of five dry human skulls and a necklace of fifty. Adorned with the five ornaments of bone. Wearing a lower garment of tiger skin. Standing on a corpse seat in a dancing manner with the left leg extended in a half [vajrasana] posture." (Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557).
Jeff Watt, 6-2006