Der Yidam Cakrasamvara und weitere tantrische Gottheiten

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Лот 47 | Der Yidam Cakrasamvara und weitere tantrische Gottheiten
The Yidam Cakrasamvara and other tantric deities - Tibet, 19th c. - In the center of this meditation thangka, is the complex representation of the tantric deity Cakrasamvara in "loving" union with the wisdom partner Vajravarahi. This union symbolically includes "skillful means" as the masculine principle and "perfect insight" as the feminine principle. Skillful means are signified as compassion, and perfect wisdom and insight as the emptiness of all phenomena. Cakrasamvara is depicted in this painting as a twelve-armed apparition of iconographic blue color. The deity has four faces each crowned with a quintuple skull crown. The faces show an enraged expression, in a mixture of anger and passion. The twelve arms of Cakrasamvara symbolize the purification of the twelve limbs or stages of "Conditioned Arising" represented in the Wheel of Life (Bhavacakra), from birth to death. All twelve hands show different attributes or weapons. The two front hands, with which Cakrasamvara at the same time embraces his partner, hold bell and diamond scepter. These two attributes, held in the gesture of embrace, have the same meaning as the union of method and wisdom. With his playing on the hand drum, the deity enhances the supreme bliss experienced in the spirit of complete enlightenment. The dagger and the crooked knife cut through the three poisons, representing avarice, hatred and pride. The trident pierces the delusions of the three realms of existence. The staff (khatvanga) held upright in the arm symbolizes Cakrasamvara's insight into the emptiness nature of all phenomena. The skull bowl filled with blood represents the blissful wisdom that fills the deity's sublime mind. The rope expresses that Cakrasamvara binds himself and others to nothing but this experience of bliss beyond all suffering. The severed head of a worldly deity (Brahma) shows Cakrasamvara's liberation from all obstacles of delusion and attainment of enlightenment. His back is covered with an elephant skin, symbolizing the overcoming of ignorance. Around his loins he has wrapped a tiger skin. As jewelry he wears corpse ashes from the cadaver fields in the form of human bones, threaded into chains, and decorative ribbons for the limbs - symbols of transience. From the neck hangs a long chain on which fifty-one freshly cut off human heads are strung. These point to the fifty-one paths that mindfulness encounters in relation to the perceived phenomena. In a moving posture, the "Wrathful Lord of the Wheel of Supreme Bliss," as Cakrasamvara is also reverently called, stands with his right leg extended on the worldly wrathful god Bhairava, whom he has overcome, and his consort Kalarati, on whom he treads with his bent leg on his chest. His companion Vajravarahi is of red body color and has long black hair. With both legs she wraps around the loins of her partner. In her hands she holds her blood-filled skull bowl and a sickle knife. With the sickle knife she cuts up disturbing influences from the side of the ego, and the skull bowl is the expression of her blissful wisdom and insight into the emptiness of all phenomena. Vajrayogini, as she is also called, is sixteen years old and of beguiling beauty, youthful freshness and vitality. She is the "Diamond Practitioner", she is the wisdom of the inseparability of great bliss and emptiness. This wisdom aims to transform the confusion of ignorance, represented as a pig on the hub of the Wheel of Life, into insight. Therefore, Vajrayogini is also called Vajravarahi - the "Diamond Pig". Her attribute is a pig's head which she wears in the side of her hair, symbolically as an expression of the spirit poison - ignorance. Merged to the unity the pair of deities appears on a sun lotus, blazed by a flaming energy aura. Above the pair of deities, Vajrasattva is enthroned with his partner on a moon lotus. Vajrasattva is worshipped as the mythical Buddha of initiations in the mandalas, and invoked to purify negative karma and transgressions through body, speech and mind. To his left, the tantric deity Kalacakra stands on a solar lotus in union with the wisdom partner. The color of Kalacakra is blue. He has four faces, each with a third eye. The deity has twenty-four arms and two legs. The partner of Kalacakra is called Natsog Yum. Yum means partner or mother. She is yellow in color and equally has four faces, each with three eyes. In the right corner is the tantric deity Hevajra. He wears a skull crown on each of his eight heads and the fivefold crown of the Tathagatas. Hevajra looks smilingly into the eyes of his wisdom partner and holds her in love union. Her name is Nairatma "she who is without I". In the lower two corners two emanations of Cakrasamvara are depicted. Both are in union with the red-colored Vajravarahi and appear in blue and in red body color. In the center below Cakrasamvara presents himself as Heruka with Garuda wings. To the left of him Vajravarahi appears again as a single figure and to the right the Dakini Macig Labdön. She is considered the '"Vajra demon vanquisher". Tempera and gold on cotton fabric. Original silk satin mounting. - Important German private collection, collected in the 1970s and 80s, mostly acquired at Schoettle Ostasiatica, Stuttgart Minor wear and traces of age
Tibet, 19. Jh.
61,5 x 41 (128 x 70) cm
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