Purely Hand-carved Vajrayogini, Traditional Art of Sculpting Dakini Statue
This red Dakini Vajrayogini is large sized statue (approximately 30 inches), purely hand carved by the artisans from Nepal. Depicting Vajrayogini in this art form is specially challenging because of her semi wrathful expression. She is smiling slightly in wrath and the artists have beautifully portrayed this important gesture of her. She stands graciously in her dancing posture, holding a skull cup and a flayed knife in her hands.
The amazing work of details, intricate carvings, the precious stones are some of the peculiar style of Nepalese artistry. One good examples of such neat finishing can be seen, if you look closely to the fire of wisdom around her. Its repetitive swirling patterns has perfectly projected the extremely blazing fire. The lustrous shrine radiates from her as she is completely gilded in 24K gold.
Size: 76cm / 29.92"(Height) x 32cm/ 12.59" (Width)
Weight: 11.416kg
Medium: 24K Gold, Copper Body
Introduction:
In Vajrayana practice, Vajrayogini is the most renowned female meditational deity. In this magnificent Vajrayogini statue, she holds up a vajra-handled curved flaying knife and a skull bowl. A garland of freshly severed heads hangs down almost to the ankle of her left leg. The right leg is bent and brought up to her inner thigh in a dancer's pose.
Vajrayogini is beautiful, the most heavenly of all women.
But it is not her beauty that attracts.
Rather, it is her promise,
the potential of controlling the ego and its cravings,
that draws the practitioner.
Her relative beauty is but a metaphor
for that which is absolutely beautiful- the Void State. (shunyata)
