Himalayan Art Resources

Item: Dvajagrakeyura (Buddhist Deity)

རྒྱལ་ཆེན་རྩེ་མོའི་དཔུང་རྒྱན། ནང་ལྷ། 幢顶臂严佛母(佛教本尊)
(item no. 9568)
Origin Location China
Date Range 1700 - 1799
Lineages Buddhist
Material Metal, Painted Face/Hair
Collection Private
Notes about the Central Figure

Classification: Deity

Interpretation / Description

[67] "...Dhvajagrakeyura, [with] three faces and four hands. The body and main face are black, the right red and the left green. Having bared fangs and three eyes. The two right hands hold, a sword and a lasso. The two left, a katvanga and chakra. Yellow hair bristling upwards. Adorned with a garland of skulls and wearing a lower garment of tiger skin and an inner garment of yellow cloth. [With] the belly hanging down [and] standing with the left [leg] extended."

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