Mahachakra Vajrapani - Updated
The Mahachakra Vajrapani Main Page has been updated. Mahachakra is a complex meditational deity belonging to the highest classification of Tantric Buddhism. He has several variant forms but all retain the essential characteristics of the three faces and six arms.
(from the Mitra Gyatsa) "...above a lotus and sun seat, Brahma and Indra, is Vajrapani with a blue cape, three faces and six hands. The right [face] is white, left red, each with three eyes. With six hands, the first two hold a vajra and a wrathful gesture upraised. The middle two are folded respectfully embracing the consort...possessed of beauty, blue [in colour], holding a curved knife and skullcup. The lower two grasp a snake, at the [level of the] waist, as food. The right leg is bent, left straight." (Description: rgyud sde kun btus, vol.23, folio 215).