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STATUETTE DE VAJRAVARAHI EN
ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE DORÉ
E
NÉPAL, XVII SIÈCLE
la divinité avec une truie émergeant derrière
son oreille droite, en ardhaparyankasana
piétinant un démon sur un socle lotiforme
rond ajouré, la main gauche tenant devant sa
poitrine une kapala et brandissant dans sa main
droite un kartrika, portant une guirlande de
têtes coupées, le visage courroucé à trois yeux,
la tête auréolée d’une mandrole ajourée, vêtue
de riches bijoux, non scellée (2)
19,8 cm, 7¾ in.
A gilt-copper alloy figure depicting Vajravarahi,
Nepal, 17th century
12 000-15 000 €
105 000-132 000HK$ 13 400-16 800 US$

尼泊爾 十七世紀
鎏金銅合金金剛亥母立像

Vajravarahi who can be identified with the
single boar’s head behind her right ear,
represents a form of Vajrayogini, the principal
deity of the Chakrasamvara cycle of Tantras.
Vajrayogini appearing in the form of Vajravarahi
is considered the most popular female Tantric
deities found in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism.
Being worshipped as the protector of the
Tantra’s secrets, she is also the consort of the
great transformative deity Samvara. Vajravarahi
is also the only female deity in Tibet to appear
in a reincarnation on earth where she served as
the abbot of Samding monastery near Lhasa.
Compare with another gilt-copper figure of
Vajravarahi of slightly smaller size in the British
Museum, published in Ulrich von Schroeder,
Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981,
pp. 378-9, fig. 101C.

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