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Tibet, 15th cent.
H. 15,4 cm
Seated in vajrasana on a lotus base, embracing his consort who is seated on his lap with her legs around his middle, his hands holding the vajra and ghanta, wearing dhoti, jewellery lavishly set with turquoise beads, his cold-gilded face displaying a serene expression with downcast eyes below arched eyebrows, raised urna at his forehead, elongated earlobes with ear ornaments, his blue coloured hairdo combed in a chignon topped with a half-vajra and secured with a tiara, his consort with karttrika and kapala, wearing bone-skirt, her face with serene expression and a red colored hairdo, unsealed.
An old private collection from southern Germany, acquired before 2000
Vajradhara is a central figure in Vajrayana Buddhism, particularly in the Sarma schools of Tibetan Buddhism, and represents the Primordial Buddha, the source of all other Buddhas. He is also known as the Adi-Buddha, the personification of the Dharmakaya, or the Body of Truth of Enlightenment. Vajradhara is depicted with a vajra (thunderbolt) and a bell, symbolising energy and emptiness - Minor traces of age