Naomi
07-12-2007, 09:28 PM
Here's a neat one I've transcribed. Click on the image for the full size version to study.
Talk a about a bad boyfriend. This guy screws zombies for kicks.... ^_^
Floating against the amorphous setting of a pale green ground that fades indistinctly into a horizonless ultramarine blue sky is the giant figure of the sixteen-legged thirty-four-armed buffalo-headed blue Yamantaka Vajrabhairava, the Death Tamer, the Diamond Terrifier. In this most powerful manifestation he holds his pale blue consort, Vajravetali, the Diamond Zombie, in the blissful union that symbolizes the union of compassion and wisdom. They are encircled by a potent ring of flames shaded from light yellow to orange to red, and edged in gold lines. [...]
Accompanying the main pair are twelve other Yamantaka couples in various colors positioned below and to the sides, representing the other twelve dieity couples that accompoany this form of Yamantaka in his mandala: four Transcendent Buddhas, Mohayamantaka (Vairochana as Yamantaka), Matsarya yamantaka (Ratnasambhava), Ragayamantaka (Amitabha) and Irshya yamantaka (Amoghasiddhi): four female Buddhas with male consorts, Charchika, Mamaki, Sarasvati, and Guari; and four guardians, Mudgarayamantaka, Danda Yamantaka, Padmayamantaka and Khadgayamantaka. . Above, a two-armed, one-faced blue Yamantaka couple appears on green clouds. To their sides appear the Jnyanadakini (a female Buddha who revealed the Yamantaka teaching) on the left, and the Great Adept Lalitavajra, who first recieved the teachings from her, on the right. Next to Lalita appears Tsong Khapa holding, a sword and book, and on the left next to the Jnyanadakini appears a lama, (probably the Fifth Dalai Lama) in the teaching gesture and holding a book. A large bowl of jewel offerings beneath the leafy lotus pedestal and four skull bowls on lotus pedestals positioned at the four quarters to the front and sides complete the well-unified, perfectly symmetrical composition.
References and Citations:
Wisdom and Compassion, The Sacred Art of Tibet Rhie Thurman
Talk a about a bad boyfriend. This guy screws zombies for kicks.... ^_^
Floating against the amorphous setting of a pale green ground that fades indistinctly into a horizonless ultramarine blue sky is the giant figure of the sixteen-legged thirty-four-armed buffalo-headed blue Yamantaka Vajrabhairava, the Death Tamer, the Diamond Terrifier. In this most powerful manifestation he holds his pale blue consort, Vajravetali, the Diamond Zombie, in the blissful union that symbolizes the union of compassion and wisdom. They are encircled by a potent ring of flames shaded from light yellow to orange to red, and edged in gold lines. [...]
Accompanying the main pair are twelve other Yamantaka couples in various colors positioned below and to the sides, representing the other twelve dieity couples that accompoany this form of Yamantaka in his mandala: four Transcendent Buddhas, Mohayamantaka (Vairochana as Yamantaka), Matsarya yamantaka (Ratnasambhava), Ragayamantaka (Amitabha) and Irshya yamantaka (Amoghasiddhi): four female Buddhas with male consorts, Charchika, Mamaki, Sarasvati, and Guari; and four guardians, Mudgarayamantaka, Danda Yamantaka, Padmayamantaka and Khadgayamantaka. . Above, a two-armed, one-faced blue Yamantaka couple appears on green clouds. To their sides appear the Jnyanadakini (a female Buddha who revealed the Yamantaka teaching) on the left, and the Great Adept Lalitavajra, who first recieved the teachings from her, on the right. Next to Lalita appears Tsong Khapa holding, a sword and book, and on the left next to the Jnyanadakini appears a lama, (probably the Fifth Dalai Lama) in the teaching gesture and holding a book. A large bowl of jewel offerings beneath the leafy lotus pedestal and four skull bowls on lotus pedestals positioned at the four quarters to the front and sides complete the well-unified, perfectly symmetrical composition.
References and Citations:
Wisdom and Compassion, The Sacred Art of Tibet Rhie Thurman