A rare and important thangka depicting Ekavira Vajrabhairava, Tibet, circa 1600 | 西藏 約1600年 獨雄大威德金剛唐卡 設色布本

Property from the collection of Richard R. and Magdalena Ernst

A rare and important thangka depicting Ekavira Vajrabhairava

Tibet, circa 1600

distemper on cloth, the blue, ithyphallic buffalo-headed Vajrabhairava in Ekavira (solitary) manifestation without consort, adorned with human skull jewelry and a garland of severed heads, with nine faces, the topmost with a golden crown and representing the deity’s spiritual progenitor Manjushri, the fearsome multi-armed god holding a flayed elephant skin cape at his back and a panoply of ritual implements in his thirty-four hands, and standing in a militant posture trampling a naked human, fierce animals and angry birds with his sixteen legs, Brahmanical deities lying prone on the lotus pedestal, an aureole of flames behind representing pristine awareness, the blue primordial buddha Vajradhara flanked by Yama and Nairatmya in cloudscape above, with multi-armed forms of Krishna Yamari astride buffalo at either side, mountainous landscape and charnel grounds below with mounted Brahmanical dikpala guardians including Indra on his elephant to the right, four-armed Agni on a ram beneath, Ishana on a black bull, blue Yama holding a skull staff and riding a buffalo, Bhudevi on her black sow, blue Nirrti on a naked dark-skinned human, Brahma on his goose, Varuna holding the serpent, Vayu on a gazelle, Yaksha on a horse, and surrounded by Indian adepts and a Tibetan Sakya lineage

108 x 77 cm, 42 1/2 by 30 1/4 in.

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Collection Richard R. et Magdalena Ernst

Rare et important tangka représentant Ekavira Vajrabhairava, détrempe sur toile, Tibet, circa 1600

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西藏 約1600年 獨雄大威德金剛唐卡 設色布本