Vajravarahi
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Vajravarahi, a fourteenth-century sculpture in the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, dances holding a cup made from a skull on the left and raising a ritual knife on the right. A boar's head above her right ear identifies this Buddhist counterpart of the Hindu Varahi. She emanates from the Goddess of Perfect Wisdom; enlightened beings can appear in either gender. The knife's half-vajra handle belongs to an implement for metaphorically skinning uncontrolled passions. Pegs cast into the lower body once secured a skirt of bone.
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Vajravarahi is the tantric Buddhist counterpart to the Hindu mother goddess Varahi, identifiable by the boar head emerging above her right ear. She is a female enlightened being who emanated from the Buddhist Goddess of Perfect Wisdom. Enlightened beings transcend gender distinctions, and they can emanate as either male or female. The lithe figure dances while carrying a skull cup in her left hand. Raised up in her right hand is a ritual flaying knife with a handle in the shape of a halfvajra, used for skinning the metaphorical beast of uncontrolled passions. The pegs cast into her lower body were for holding a bone skirt.
Clevelandské muzeum umění
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- Inventární číslo
- 1982.50
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- Clevelandské muzeum umění
- Obrázek: Clevelandské muzeum umění — Museum open access
