![Sarvavid Vairocana Mandala [Small]](Covers/23547.jpg)
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| Author(s) : Beer, Robert |
| Publishers Price : £65.00 |
| Wisdom Price : £65.00
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| Size : 333 x 255mm | | Publisher : Robert Beer Website |
Category : Tibetan Art
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Synopsis:
Sarvavid, meaning ‘all-knowing’, is a white four-faced and peaceful sambhogakaya aspect of Vairocana Buddha, whose yoga-tantra practice was first reputedly taught to the gods in order to ‘eliminate all the miseries’ of their possible future rebirths. This complex double-mandala has an ‘inner mansion’ of thirty-seven deities, and an ‘outer mansion’ of sixty further residents, all of whom are represented by the small symbol of a vajra-handled curved knife resting upon a moon disc and lotus. All of these symbolic deities face inward towards Sarvavid Vairocana, who occupies the central chamber of the lotus dais at the mandala’s centre. The traditional protection wheels of the lotus-circle, vajra-ring and fire-mountain encircle the complex outer structure of the mandala palace. But this particular mandala has a white protection wheel that contains the minute and meticulously painted forms of ninety-six lokapalas or guardian deities, many of which are common to both the Hindu and Buddhist traditions. In the upper left and right corners are the Mahasiddha Jnanavajra, and the founder of the Gelugpa tradition, Tsongkhapa (1357-1419). In the lower corners are the Gelugpa protectors, Six-armed Mahakala (left), and Paldan Lhamo (right). |
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