Origin Location | Eastern Tibet |
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Date Range | 1900 - 1959 |
Lineages | Nyingma and Gelug |
Size | 36.20x53.98cm (14.25x21.25in) |
Material | Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton |
Collection | Private |
Classification: Deity
Appearance: Semi-Peaceful
Gender: Female
Troma Nagmo (Sanskrit: Krishna Krodhini. English: the Fierce Black One), a wrathful form of Vajravarahi.
"...Bhagavani [Krodha Kali] with a great radiance at the time of darkness, fierce and raging. The main face is wrathful, the very pure relative truth, and the upper face of a pig is the pure ultimate truth, gazing upward; [both] having three round red eyes. The right hand holds a curved knife upraised and the left a skullcup of blood [held] to the heart. In the bend of the left elbow, as the nature of method, appears a katvanga staff. Wearing an elephant hide as an upper garment and a tiger skin as a lower garment; adorned with snakes and bones. Dark yellow hair bristles upward, the remainder falling loose. With a crown of five dry human skulls, a necklace of fifty fresh. The left leg is extended in a half dance posture pressing on the heart of a human corpse. Appearing youthful and dwelling in the middle of a blazing mass of fire." (Terdag Lingpa Gyurme Dorje (1646-1714) and Minling Lochen Dharmashri 1654-1718).
Jeff Watt 4-2000