Vajravega (Buddhist Protector)
(item no. 101512)

China

1300 - 1399

Buddhist Lineage

Ground: Textile Image

   (Embroidery)

Collection of Private

(Potala Palace, Lhasa)

 
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Vajravega (T. dor je shug): the pricipal protector deity for the Kalachakra Tantra and practices.

The Wheel of Time (Kalachakra) is a principal meditational deity in Tantric Buddhism. Like most deities in Buddhism, the Wheel of Time is a construct, a creation of symbolic elements and characteristics formed to personify a particular text called the Kalachakra Tantra and to function as a mnemonic device. The metaphor for the practice of the Wheel of Time is time itself; the moments passing, the minutes and hours in the day, years, lunar and solar cycles, along with the rhythms and cycles of the human body.

Jeff Watt 1-2005


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Exhibition: Tibet, Treasures from the Roof of the World

Thematic Set
Subject: Jonangpa Tradition
Buddhist Protector: Vajravega



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