A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF DAKINI PUKKASI TIBET, 15TH CENTURY

the dakini standing in ardhaparyankasana, wearing the five-pointed crown with jatamukata with dharmachakra finial, with three fierce eyes and mouth agape, wearing the six bone ornaments and skull garland, holding a snow lion in the raised right hand and a parashu in the left 

Wear and accretion overall, with traces of polychroming throughout. Bending and loss to pointed crown elements, minor losses to chakra in hair, bending to ax handle in left hand, bending to tassel elements with possible casting sprue intact. Cracking to backs of both legs, stable. Possible loss to one link of girdle chain at back of right thigh.
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The dakini Pukkasi is one of the eight goddesses associated with the yidam or meditational deity Hevajra, the principal yidam of the Anuttarayoga Tantra of the Vajrayana tradition. Pukkasi is rarely depicted in bronze, and more frequently appears with a retinue of eight dakini in Hevajra thangkas.