Vajrasattva
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Holding a thunderbolt on the right and a bell on the left, the Cambodian Vajrasattva is a sculpture of the 1100s–1200s in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland. These implements served tantric Buddhist rituals practised at Banteay Chhmar under Jayavarman VII. Tantra uses ceremonies and mantras to help practitioners attain their goals swiftly. Although known in Cambodia from the tenth century, it gained particular prominence under this ruler and apparently gave way to other Buddhist traditions after the fifteenth century. Small bronzes of Vajrasattva may have been taken from temple treasuries for ceremonies prescribed in the Hevajra-tantra, a Sanskrit text brought from India.
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Vajrasattva is a Buddhist being of enlightenment who holds the vajra, or thunderbolt, in his right hand and a bell in his left. The vajra and bell are the basic implements used in tantric rituals that were popular under Jayavarman VII and practiced at Banteay Chhmar.
Tantra is a form of Buddhism that makes use of rituals and mantras to aid practitioners in reaching their goals quickly, as though with the speed of lightning. Tantric texts and rituals were used frequently in Cambodia, from the 900s onward, but they were especially prominent under Jayavarman VII. This form of Buddhism appears to have been supplanted by other forms after the 1400s.
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Small bronze images of Vajrasattva may have been brought out from a temple treasury during the performance of Buddhist rituals that followed the instructions in a Sanskrit text, brought to Cambodia from India, called the Hevajra-tantra. In that text Vajrasattva manifests at key moments in the rituals.
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- 1947.494
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