Vajrayogini (Buddhist Deity) - Krodha Kali (Wrathful Black Varahi)
(item no. 90156)

Eastern Tibet

1900 - 1959

Nyingma and Gelug Lineages

36.20x53.98cm (14.25x21.25in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Private


 
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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


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Thematic Set
Region: Tibet, Rebkong (Amdo) Paintings
Tradition: Gelug Deity Paintings
Tradition: Nyingma Deity Paintings
Collection: Private I
Buddhist Deity: Vajrayogini (Main Page)
Buddhist Deity: Deities (Female)
Buddhist Deity: Vajrayogini, Krodha Kali
Subject: Longchen Nyingtig Painting Set



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