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| Author(s) : Beer, Robert |
| Publishers Price : £65.00 |
| Wisdom Price : £65.00
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| Size : 372 x 255mm | | Publisher : Robert Beer Website |
Category : Tibetan Art
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Synopsis:
Vajrasattva (Tib. Dorje Sempa), the ‘indestructible being or hero’, is an important meditation or yidam deity, whose practice is particularly effective in purifying all defilements, especially those of anger and aversion. His visualization practice and the repetition of his hundred-syllable mantra are one of the four ‘preliminary practices’ that are common to all schools of Tibetan Buddhism. In the Nyingma tradition he is also recognized as the source of transmission for the Atiyoga or Dzogchen teachings. Vajrasattva is white in colour, wears divine silks and jeweled ornaments, and sits in vajra-posture upon a white moon disc and multicoloured lotus. With his right hand he embraces his consort as he holds a golden five-pointed vajra, while with his left hand resting upon his hip he holds an upturned silver bell. His white consort is Vajragarvi or Vajratopa (Tib. Dorje Nyenma), who sits upon his lap in lotus-posture with her legs encircling his waist, her black hair hanging freely down her back, and she is similarly adorned with the divine silk and jewel ornaments. With her two arms she embraces Vajrasattva’s neck, with her left and right hands holding a skull-cup full of nectar and a vajra-handled curved knife behind his head. Amidst the rainbows at the top centre is the blue primordial Buddha Samantabhadra in sexual union with his white consort, Samantabhadri. |
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