Shiva, the great ascetic lord, is shown here in his dynamic and cosmic aspect as Nataraja, the ‘Lord of the Dance’. In tandava, or ‘bow-and-arrow’ posture, he dances upon the...
The assembly known as the ‘Eight Medicine Buddhas’ shows the principal form of the Medicine Buddha, or the ‘Medicine Guru’ Bhaisajyaguru, surrounded by his ‘Six...
This diagram illustrates the six principal chakras of the Hindu kundalini-yoga system, which are represented here within the ‘subtle-body’ of a naked yogin with matted hair...
Amitabha, the red Buddha of ‘Boundless Light’, sits on his peacock throne at the centre of his western paradise of Sukhavati, the ‘Blissful Realm’. Sukhavati is believed...
The thirty-two-deity mandala of Guhyasamaja-Akshobhyavajra is one of the principal ‘method’ or father-tantra mandalas that are described in the Vajravali or ‘vajra-garland’...