Vajrakila 唐卡大图

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Vajrakila, Heruka (Tibetan: dor je phur ba, thrag thung. English: Vajra Peg, Blood Drinker). Also known as Vajra Kumara (Vajra Youth), he is the activity deity from the set of Eight Herukas (Tib.: ka gye) of the Mahayoga Tantras of the Nyingmapa School.

Tibet

1700 - 1799

Nyingma Lineage

180.98x59.06cm (71.25x23.25in)

Ground Mineral Pigment, Black Background on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

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Tibet

1800 - 1899

Nyingma Lineage

43.18x34.29cm (17x13.50in)

Ground Mineral Pigment, Black Background on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

Extremely wrathful with three faces, six hands and four legs, each face has three eyes, a gaping mouth, curled red tongue and yellow hair flowing upward. The first pair of hands hold a sharp pointed kila (three sided peg) at the heart. The right hands hold extended to the sides a five and nine pointed gold vajra sceptre and the left hands extended outward hold a decorative trident ornamented with streamers and a mass of flame entwined around the index finger and bursting forth. Unfurled behind are two large feathered wings. With a crown of five dry human skulls, he wears a gold half-vajra on the crown of the central head. Adorned with earrings, bracelets and a necklace of fifty heads, he wears an elephant hide and human skin across the back and a tiger skin around the waist. The consort Diptachakra (Flaming Wheel) has one face and two hands holding a skullcup in the left. Adorned with jewels and gold she wears a leopard skin skirt. The left leg is raised to embrace the male consort. In a posture with the two right legs bent and the left straight atop the splayed bodies of Maheshvara and Uma, a sun disc and lotus blossom, the terrific deities stand surrounded by the swirling orange-red flames of pristine awareness. A skullcup of wrathful offerings a surrounded by precious jewels is offered in front. Along each side are landscape scenes of mountains and waterfalls filling the background.

At the top center in a radiant sphere sits the buddha Vajrasattva, peaceful, with one face and two hands holding a vajra at the heart and a bell at the waist, seated on a lotus flower. At the left is Green Tara with one face and two hands holding the stems of two lotus blossoms, seated in a relaxed posture with the right leg extended resting on a small lotus flower. At the left is the wealth goddess Vasudhara with one face and two hands holding a bijapuraka fruit in the right and the stem of a blossoming lotus to the heart with the left hand. Both, seated in a relaxed posture, are adorned with gold and jewel ornaments and attired in flowing silk garments.

"Supreme Kilaya, son of the gathered wrathful Victors, exhibiting a vajra with the power to eliminate without obstruction. Liberator, deity of activity transcending violence; homage to the form of Vajra Kumara." (Nyingma liturgical verse).

The style of painting is 'black scroll' (Tib.: nag thang) - gold outline on a black background with a minimal use of coloured pigments for detailing the figures. This style is reserved for wrathful tutelary deities and protectors.

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