Buddhist Deity: Sarasvati (Main Page)

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Buddhist Deity: Sarasvati (Main Page)

Sarasvati, Sita Vina (Tibetan: yang chen ma, pi wang kar mo): goddess of literature, poetry and wisdom.

"...the goddess Sarasvati, with a body white in colour, one face, two hands. Seated in a relaxed manner, with a face like the rising moon, eyebrows like drawn lines, two beautiful eyes like utpalas, casting side long glances like shooting stars, a clear complexion, pink cheeks and attractive. The throat is graceful and gently bending; white breasts, round, firm, upright and full. The left hand holds a jewel-studded vina of the gandharavas, the right a pick strumming the vina enthusiastically with the fingertips. With a very slender waist and flexible hips, a body well proportioned, fair, smooth, young, ample flesh and well rounded. Seated with the two legs, white, smooth, relaxed and desirable, in a slightly crouching manner; attractive braids, long and full, half-loose covering the upper back, half tied up in a topknot blazing with a wishing jewel. At the hairline - wearing a beautiful gold chain strung with flowers, blue, red and the like, wearing earrings of gold flowers and utpalas. Next to the ears are flowing silk ribbons; also adorned with many ornaments, jewel earrings, necklaces, bracelets, anklets, belt, long-necklace and the like. Wearing an attractive upper garment of white cotton and a lower garment like a rainbow; fantastically beloved, radiantly desirous - sixteen years of age." (Jamyang Kyentse Wangpo, 1820-1892).

Forms of Sarasvati:
1. White, two arms holding a Vina.
2. White, two arms holding an utpala flower & book.
3. White, one face and four arms (Hindu & Buddhist)
4. White, three faces, four arms.
5. White, three faces, six arms.
6. Red, two arms (Sakya Pandita).
7. Red, two arms (Longchen Nyingtig).
8. Red, four arms, embracing red Manjushri (Bodong).

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9. Red, three faces, six arms (Yamari Tantra).
10. Blue (Hindu)
11. Others...........

The Three Forms of Sarasvati According to the Vajrabhairava System of Tantra:
Vajra Vetali, the female consort in wrathful aspect embracing Vajrabhairava
Sarasvati, the peaceful aspect
Oden Barma (Blazing with Light) the protector aspect of Vajra Vetali

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Vajra Sarasvati: white in colour with one face and two hands.

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White, one face and four arms (Hindu & Buddhist)

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White, three faces, four arms.

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White, three faces, six arms.

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Red, two arms (Sakya Pandita).

Mongolia

1800 - 1899

Buddhist Lineage

Ground Mineral Pigment on Paper

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Red Sarasvati (Tibetan: yang chen mar mo): according to the tradition of the Kashmiri Pandita Shakyashri Bhadra and the Tibetan teacher Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen.

"...the goddess Sarasvati, with a body coral in colour, like the colour red, [with] one face and two arms. The right hand holds a wish-fulfilling jewel and the left a mirror of wisdom. The right leg is extended and the left drawn in. [With] large, swelling breasts and adorned with a crown of jewels, a short necklace, bracelets, anklets and a long necklace and the like, and wearing a flowing lower garment and various silks, [she is] youthful, sixteen years of age, serious, peaceful and smiling, with a charming manner. Immeasurable rays of light shine forth. Perceiving the lack of inherent self-existence, the inside of the body is like a clear reflection." (extracted from the Goddess of Melodious Speech. Written by Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen, 1182-1251. Translation 1987).

"...the goddess Sarasvati with a body coral in colour, like a mass of heaped particles blazing with a radiance wreathed by a thousand rising suns; very beautiful, peaceful, smiling, a charming youth of sixteen years. The right hand extended in salutation holds a wishing jewel and in the left a bright clear mirror of pristine awareness. The two feet at play, the right extended and left drawn up, on a lotus and moon; adorned with beautiful silk and jewel ornaments; the union of appearance emptiness like the reflection of the moon in water." (Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo, 1820-1892. Translation 1987).

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Red, two arms (Longchen Nyingtig).

Sarasvati - Red (2 hands. Longchen Nyingtig)

Eastern Tibet

1900 - 1959

Nyingma Lineage

38.10x27.31cm (15x10.75in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Private

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Red, four arms, embracing red Manjushri (Bodong).

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Red, three faces, six arms (Yamari Tantra).

Vajra Sarasvati, Wrathful and Secret Vajra Sarasvati (Tib.: dor je yang chen ma mar mo): from the Krishna Yamari Tantra.

"Vajra Sarasvati, with three faces and six hands. The main face is red, the right blue and the left white. The three right hands hold, a lotus, sword and curved knife. The three left, a wheel, jewel and skullcup. Having jewel ornaments and garments of silk. Seated

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10. Blue (Hindu)
11. Others...........

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