Materials:

Gold plated copper

Lapis Lazuli

Coral

Dimensions & Weight:

Height: 6.2 inches

Width: 3 inches

Depth: 1.7 inches

Weight: 450 grams

Shipping Origin: Kathmandu, Nepal

Description:

Master Nepali craftsman created this wonderful carved lapis lazuli and gold-plated copper Vajravarahi statue. Her wrists, ankles, and stomach have inlaid coral.

Vajravarahi is a wrathful form of Vajrayogini (associated particularly with the Cakrasamvara Tantra) with more prominent fangs, a more wrathful expression, and she prominently displays a sow’s head above her right ear.

Vajravarahi is one of the most popular female Tantric deities in all traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. Although there are several forms, the basic iconography is that she has one face, (usually) two hands and two legs, and standing in a dancing posture on a human corpse. The distinguishing iconographic attribute is a sow’s head placed either on the right side of her head or on the top of her head. Because of this sow’s head, sometimes she is called the “two-faced” Vajrayogini.