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Bernagchen Mahakala with Vajravarahi directly above with a Black Hat Lama seated on the left and a Red Hat Lama on the right.

Tibet

1800 - 1899

Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist Lineages

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

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Tibet 1700 - 1799 Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist Lineages, Ground Mineral Pigment, Black Background on Silk,

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

Bernag Chen, Vajra Mahakala (English: the Great Black-Cloak Vajra Mahakala), the personal protector of the Karmapas and the special protector of the Karma Kagyu (Kamtsangpa) School of Tibetan Buddhism. This form and depiction of Bernagchen is based on numerous visions beheld by Karma Pakshi as Mahakala appeared surrounded by clouds in the sky above.

The fiercely wrathful, Black Cloak Mahakala is black in colour, with one face, three round bulbous eyes, a large gaping red mouth with bared white fangs, his yellow beard, eyebrows and hair flow upward like flames. The right hand holds aloft a curved flaying knife with a vajra handle. The left holds a white blood filled skullcup to the heart. Adorned with a crown of five dry white skulls, earrings, bracelets and a garland of freshly severed heads, he wears a great black cloak with a green jacket beneath. He stands surrounded by black smoke and faint red licks of the flames of pristine awareness.

At the top center of the composition is an unidentified Karmapa, the Black Hat Lama of the Kamtsangpa Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He is very likely to be the 11th Karmapa, a teacher of Situ Panchen Chokyi Jungne. To the right is the female meditational deity Vajravarahi, red in colour, holding a curved knife in the upraised right hand and a skullcup in the left with a katvanga staff leaning against the left shoulder. She stands in a dancing posture. Below Karmapa on the left is a protector of the world, the Guardian of the Northern Direction, Vaishravana, wearing the helmet and armor of a king. He has one face and two hands holding a conical banner and a mongoose spewing jewels; riding atop a lion. On the right is Karnag Dorje Gyalpo a naga with a hood of snakes above the head and lower body in the shape of a serpent. The two hands hold a wish-fulfilling jewel.

At the right side of Mahakala is Shri Devi Dudsolma, black, with one face and four hands holding a vajra peg (kila) katvanga staff and a skullcup and mirror. She rides atop a donkey. On the left side of Mahakala is Damchen Garwa Nagpo, the oath-bound blacksmith, with one face and two hands holding a blacksmith's hammer and a bellows. He rides atop a brown goat.

Arranged below the central figure are three more wrathful attendant figures in the retinue of the Black Cloak Mahakala. At the left is Trakshe, a fearsome figure who stands with a female consort at the side. In the middle is Tsogdag, a black male naga with a hood of snakes, riding atop an elephant. At the right the male attendant, Shingkyong, with a lion face rides atop a black horse clutching a spear in the right hand and a skullcup with wrathful food offerings (torma) in the left. Shingkyong is often accompanied by a male and female monkey. One monkey can just be discerned standing behind Shingkyong and staring forward.

Bernag Chen was introduced into the Karma Kagyu School by the 2nd Karmapa, Karma Pakshi (1206-1283). The practice originated from the Revealed Treasure (Tibetan: ter ma) tradition of the Nyingma School.

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据说此尊是有特别的誓言，专门护持噶玛巴的事业。
不知道哪位“多闻”的高人可以说仔细点:)

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