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THBTibetan Bronze Figure of Vajrabhairava Embracing Vajravetali
About Seller
522 South Pineapple Avenue
Sarasota, FL 34236
United States
Sarasota Estate Auction specializes in a wide variety of furniture, antiques, fine art, lighting, sculptures, and collectibles. Andrew Ford, owner and operator of the company, has a passion for finding the best pieces of art and antiques and sharing those finds with the Gulf Coast of Florida.
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LiveNov 3, 2024
Over 1,000 lots will be offered in day 2 of our 2 day weekend. There are multiple lots of important fine art from landscapes and etchings to old masters and portraits. We have a great collection of sterling silver, WWII posters, Asian antiquities, a lifetime collection of woodblock prints, oriental rugs, bronze sculptures, and more! Sarasota Estate Auction sarasotaestateauction@gmail.com
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- Lot Description
Tibetan Bronze Figure of Vajrabhairava Embracing Vajravetali.
Condition: Commensurate with age.
Size: 3 x 1 3/4 x 4 in.
#2304 .
The wrathful Yamāntaka (known as Vajrabhairava in Tibet) is a yidam, a deity that presides over the great tantras of the highest yoga in Tibetan Buddhism. A guardian and destroyer of death (personified as the god Yama), he is usually represented with multiple arms and legs, sometimes more than ten. In most Buddhist traditions, Yamāntaka is a wrathful expression of Mañjuśrī, the bodhisattva of wisdom. However, in Chinese Esoteric Buddhism and Shingon Buddhism, Yamāntaka is the wrathful emanation of Amitabha, who adopted the form in order to defeat Yama when the Lord of Death began interfering with karma by claiming victims before their time was up. Yamāntaka tricked Yama into submitting by terrorizing him with a grotesque, many-limbed form, one even more frightening than that of Yama himself. Through this way, Mañjuśrī (and/or Amitabha) also exposed the illusory nature of the fear of death, as well as the unreality of death itself. Within the whole of Buddhism, destroying or “terminating” death is a quality of all buddhas, as they have stopped the cycle of rebirth called Saṃsāra. Therefore, Yamāntaka represents the goal of the Mahayana practitioner’s journey to enlightenment, and even the journey itself: On final awakening, one manifests Yamāntaka, the ending of Death. In most depictions he is seen embracing his consort Vajravetali (literally translated as “indestructible corpse” in Sanskrit), a physical embodiment of his shakti that straddles life and death for all eternity, in a tender or even sexual embrace that alludes to a dualistic totality encompassing compassion and wisdom.
Condition
Commensurate with age.
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- Size
3 x 1 3/4 x 4 in.
- Picked up By
Steve UPS
- LiveA Cat Code
26420
- LiveA Material & Tech Code
25739
