Hevajra - (Hevajra Tantra)
(item no. 59706)

Bhutan

1800 - 1899

Buddhist Lineage

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art


 


Hevajra, Heruka (Tib.: drag tung gye pa dor je).

"Shri Heruka, with a body blue in colour, one face and two hands. The right [hand] holds aloft a flaming vajra. The left holds a blood filled skullcup at the heart [and] a katvanga [in the bend of] the elbow, adorned with a pendant and three prongs. Having three round red eyes and slightly bared fangs. Brown hair bristling upwards. Adorned with a garland of human heads and bone ornaments. Wearing a garment of human skin and anointed with body ashes. Standing on a corpse seat in a dancing manner with the right leg extended in a half [vajrasana] posture." (Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-15557).

Jeff Watt, 6-2006


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Buddhist Deity: Hevajra
Iconography: Drub Tab Gyatso



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