Vayu (Tibetan: Lunglha): retinue deity of the Medicine Buddha Mandala of Fifty-one Deities. This painting belongs to a larger set depicting all fifty-one deities. (See Collection of All Tantras vol.1, page 117).

Vayu has one face and two hands holding a long staff extending up over the right shoulder; seated on a deer lying atop a lotus blossom seat. Clouds of various colours and an ornate canopy hover in the sky above. Five decorative Sanskrit mantra syllables rest on lotus cushions below.

Jeff Watt 3-2002 [updated 11-2008]