All about Guhyasamaja Tantra

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Guhyasamja is one of Vajrayana Buddhism’s most fascinating, difficult, and essential personalities. It combines various important tathagata Buddhas, into one sculpture. It is predominantly is call Akshobhayavajara which is the form of Akshobhaya buddha.

Guhyasamja is the foremost meditational deity of the Method-father class of Anuttarayoga tantra. Guhyasamaja has two main traditions, the Arya (Nagarjuna) Lineage, and the Jnana (Jnanapada) Lineage.

There are three principal iconographic forms of Guhyasamaja; Akshobhyavajra (blue), Manjuvajra (orange), and Avalokita (red).

All three of these forms have three faces, six arms, two legs, and embrace a consort. Guhyasamaja can appear as either peaceful or slightly peaceful and slightly wrathful.

Guhyasamāja is blue-black in color, a form of Akshobhya, one of the five transcendent lords.

Akshobhyavajra holds a vajra and bell in his first two hands, and other hands hold the symbols of the four other transcendent lords, wheel of Vairocana, and lotus of Amitabha in his rights, and the gem of Ratnasambhava and sword of Amoghasiddhi in his lefts.

Origin of Guhyasamaja

According to legend, the Shakyamuni Buddha himself, in the form of Vajradhara, revealed Guhyasamaja Tantra to Indrabhuti, King of Oddiyana, for the first time. There are various traditions and transmissions, as with most Tantras. The Jnapada Tradition, which dates from the late eighth century, is possibly the earliest extant lineage. The Noble Tradition, which is based on commentary attributed to Nagarjuna, aryadeva, and Candrakrti, is the most important historically.

About Guhyasamaja

One of the most important scriptures of esoteric Buddhism is the Guhyasamaja Tantra. It has seventeen chapters in its most complete form, while the Appendix Tantra, a separate “explanatory tantra,” is sometimes regarded the eighteenth chapter. Many scholars assume that the first twelve chapters were the original heart of the text, with chapters thirteen to seventeen added afterwards as explanatory material. It was classified as a Yoga or Mahayoga Tantra in India. It is regarded as an Unsurpassed Yoga Tantra in Tibet. It develops traditions found in earlier scriptures such as the Sarva-tathagata-tattva-samgraha but is focused to a greater extent on the antinomian aspects characteristic of the later Buddhist Tantras. It survives in Sanskrit manuscripts and in Tibetan and Chinese translation.

Mantra of Guhyasamaja

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Antique Thangkas of Guhyasamaja

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Thangka

This is an Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Thangka collection of Rubin Museum of Art. This thangka is handpainted on cotton using Ground Mineral Pigment.

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from the Gelug lineage. Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is peaceful in appearance with a stern expression. Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is blue in color. He has three faces and six hands, embracing the consort.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Central Tibet
Date Range	1500 – 1599
Lineage	Gelug
Size	80.01×59.69cm (31.50×23.50in)
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment, Fine Gold Line on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Rubin Museum of Art

Buddhist Deity Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja

This is an Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Thangka collection of Rubin Museum of Art. This thangka is handpainted on cotton using Ground Mineral Pigment.

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from the Sakya, Ngor (Sakya) and Buddhist lineage.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Central Tibet
Date Range	1600 – 1699
Lineage	Sakya, Ngor (Sakya), and Buddhist
Size	75.57×57.79cm (29.75×22.75in)
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment, Fine Gold Line on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Rubin Museum of Art

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Buddhist Thangka

This is an Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Thangka collection of Rubin Museum of Art. This thangka is handpainted on Ground Mineral Pigment, Fine Gold Line on Cotton. Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from the Gelug lineage.

He is semi- peaceful in appearance. The size of this thangka is 82.55×57.15cm (32.50×22.50in). Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is at the center of the thangka surrounded by different deities.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1700 – 1799
Lineage	Gelug
Size	82.55×57.15cm (32.50×22.50in)
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment, Fine Gold Line on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Rubin Museum of Art

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Tibetan Thangka

This is an Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Thangka collection of Rubin Museum of Art. Guhyasamaja Akshobhyavajra in consort is seated central surrounded by various deities. Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja has three faces and six hands is blue-black in color peaceful with a slightly fierce expression seated in vajra posture.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Mongolia
Date Range	1800 – 1899
Lineage	Gelug
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Rubin Museum of Art

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Thangka Art

This is an Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Thangka from a private collection. Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is one of the principal meditational deities of Vajrayana Buddhism (Tantra). The practice is foundational for Tantric theory for all the ‘new’ (sarma) schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Painted compositions such as this are illustrative of all the figures represented in the practice along with a selection of lineage teachers which are seen at the top of the painting.

The proper formalized ritual image for the practice for Guhyasamaja is understood through the model of the container and the container which is the mandala of the deity, retinue, and the palace and surroundings.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1700 – 1799
Lineage	Gelug and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja Tibetan Art

This is a Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja Thangka from a private collection. Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja is peaceful in appearance. He is from Buddhist Lineage. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton.

Name	Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Lineage	Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

Buddhist Guhyasamaja Thangka Art

This is a Guhyasamaja Thangka from a private collection. He is from Buddhist Lineage.

Name	Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	དབུས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བརྙན་གང་རུང་།
Chinese Name	任何中心人物
Origin	Tibet
Lineage	Buddhist
Collection	Private

Buddhist Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Thangka

This Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Thangka is from private collection. He is from Gelug and Buddhist lineage. He is Semi-peaceful in appearance. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton.

 His body blue in color like sapphire, issuing forth rays of blazing light. The main face is blue with a mixed expression of fierceness and desire. The canine teeth are pointed and clenched, frowning and having three eyes.

The right face is white in a peaceful manner, the left face is red in a desirous manner. All three faces are adorned with very beautiful eyebrows. Each of the six hands is adorned with precious rings. The first two hands hold a nine-pointed vajra and a bell embracing the consort who is in the same appearance as the Father.

Her right second-hand holds a white wheel with eight spokes. Her third-hand holds a red lotus with eight petals. The left second-hand holds a green jewel with nine facets. The third-hand holds a sword, bright blue and blazing with rays of light. Seated with the legs in vajra posture. She is adorned with the thirty-two major and eighty minor marks, the hair, in braids, is tied on the crown of the head.

The jewel on the crown of the head greatly blazes with soothing rays of light [like] the sun and moon. He is adorned with eight different types of precious ornaments: a crown, earrings, choker, necklace, armlets, bracelets, long necklace, and belt. The ears are made more beautiful with blue utpalas and ribbons; wearing various [heavenly] garments bright like Indra’s bow

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1700 – 1799
Lineage	Gelug and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

17th Century Thangka of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja

This thangka is handpainted on Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made between 1700 – 1799. He is from Gelug and Buddhist lineage.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance. This thangka is from a private collection.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1700 – 1799
Lineage	Gelug and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

Guhyasamaja Thangka

This is a Guhyasamaja Thangka from a private collection. He is from Buddhist Lineage. This thangka was made in Tibet.

Name	Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	དབུས་ཀྱི་སྣང་བརྙན་གང་རུང་།
Chinese Name	任何中心人物
Origin	Tibet
Lineage	Buddhist
Collection	Private

Guhyasamaja Thangka Art

This thangka is handpainted on Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made between 1700 – 1799. He is from Gelug and Buddhist lineage.

This thangka is from a private collection.

Name	Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Date Range	1700 – 1799
Lineage	Gelug and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Collection	Private

Buddhist Deity Avalokiteshvara Guhyasamaja

This thangka is handpainted on Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made between 1700 – 1799. He is from Gelug and Buddhist lineage.

He is peaceful in appearance. This thangka is from a private collection.

Name	Avalokiteshvara Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1700 – 1799
Lineage	Gelug and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

Traditional Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Thangka

This thangka is handpainted on Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made between 1700 – 1799. He is from Gelug and Buddhist lineage.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance. This thangka is from a private collection.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1700 – 1799
Lineage	Gelug and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

Traditional Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Thangka Art

This thangka is handpainted on Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made between 1700 – 1799. He is from Gelug and Buddhist lineage.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance. This thangka is from a private collection.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1700 – 1799
Lineage	Gelug and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

Guhyasamaja Painting

This thangka is handpainted on Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made between 1700 – 1799. He is from Gelug and Buddhist lineage.

This thangka is from a private collection.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1700 – 1799
Lineage	Gelug and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Classification	Deity
Collection	Private

18th Century Thangka of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja

This Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja thangka is handpainted on Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made between 1800 – 1899 in Tibet. He is from Gelug and Buddhist lineage.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance. This thangka is from a University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology collection.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1800 – 1899
Lineage	Gelug and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasaamaja Painting

This thangka is handpainted on Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made between 1600 – 1699. Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is the foremost tutelary deity of the Method-father class of Anuttarayoga tantra.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance. This thangka is from the Rubin Museum of Art collection.  He is blue in color. He has three faces, blue, white, and red. The main pair of hands hold a vajra and bell embracing the consort, also with three faces. This form of Akshobhyavajra has only two eyes per face.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1600 – 1699
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

18th Century Buddhist Deity Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja

This is an Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Thangka collection of the Buryat Historical Museum. This thangka is handpainted on Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made between 1800 – 1899. He is from a Buddhist lineage.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1800 – 1899
Lineage	Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Buryat Historical Museum

Buddhist Deity  Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja Thangka

This is a Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja Thangka from a private collection. Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja is peaceful in appearance.

Name	Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Appearance	Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

Ritual Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Thangka

This is an Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Thangka from a private collection. Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is semi- peaceful in appearance.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Appearance	Semi- Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

19th Century Thangka of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja

This thangka of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from the Rubin Museum of Art collection. The material used to make this thangka is Ground: Paper. This thangka was made between 1960 – in Eastern Tibet. He is from a Buddhist lineage.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance. The size of this thangka is 65.41×44.12cm (25.75×17.37in).

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Eastern Tibet
Date Range	1960 –
Size	65.41×44.12cm (25.75×17.37in)
Lineage	Buddhist
Material	Ground: Paper
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Rubin Museum of Art

19th Century Thangka of Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja

This thangka of Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja is from the Rubin Museum of Art collection. The material used to make this thangka is Ground: Paper. This thangka was made between 1900 – 1959 in Eastern Tibet. He is from a Sakya and Buddhist lineage.

He is peaceful in appearance. The size of this thangka is 63.50×43.18cm (25x17in)

Name	Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Eastern Tibet
Date Range	1900 – 1959
Size	63.50×43.18cm (25x17in)
Lineage	Buddhist
Material	Ground: Paper
Appearance	Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Rubin Museum of Art

Traditional Thangka of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja

This thangka of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art collection. The material used to make this thangka is ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made between 1700 – 1799 in Eastern Tibet. He is from a Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist lineage.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance. He is the chief meditational deity of the Father (method) classification of Anuttarayoga Tantra. He is surrounded by eight attendant retinue deities. This composition belongs to a much larger set of paintings depicting the twenty-seven special deities of the Kagyu Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism as it came down through the Karma Kagyu sub-school.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Eastern Tibet
Date Range	1700 – 1799
Lineage	Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art

Buddhist Thangka of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja

This thangka of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from the American Museum of Natural History collection. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made in Tibet. He is from a Buddhist lineage.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Lineage	Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	American Museum of Natural History

Tibetan Thangka of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja

This thangka of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from the American Museum of Natural History collection. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made in Tibet. He is from a Buddhist lineage.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Lineage	Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	American Museum of Natural History

17th Century Buddhist Deity Guhyasamaja

This thangka is handpainted on Ground: Textile Image, Embroidery. This thangka was made between 1700 – 1799.

The size of this thangka is 45.72×35.56cm (18x14in). This thangka is from a Publication: Visual Dharma: The Buddhist Art of Tibet collection.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Mongolia
Date Range	1700 – 1799
Size	45.72×35.56cm (18x14in)
Material	Ground: Textile Image, Embroidery
Classification	Deity
Collection	Publication: Visual Dharma: The Buddhist Art of Tibet

118th Century Tibetan Thangka of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja

This thangka is handpainted on the Ground: Textile Image, Embroidery, Applique. This thangka was made between 1800 – 1899 in Mongolia. He is from a Buddhist lineage.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance. This thangka is from a Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhist Painted Scrolls collection.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Mongolia
Date Range	1800 – 1899
Lineage	Buddhist
Material	Ground: Textile Image, Embroidery, Applique
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Tibetan and Mongolian Buddhist Painted Scrolls

18th Centyury Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja

This thangka of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from the Yonghegong Palace Monastery collection. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made in China. He is from a Gelug and Buddhist lineage.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	China
Lineage	Gelug and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Yonghegong Palace Monastery

17th Century Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Painting

This is an Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Thangka from a private collection. Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is semi- peaceful in appearance. He is from Gelug and Buddhist Lineage. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Date Range	1700 – 1799
Origin	China
Lineage	Gelug and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi – Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male

14th Century Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Painting

This thangka is handpainted on Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made between 1400 – 1499. He is from Gelug and Buddhist lineage.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance. This thangka is from a private collection. His body was blue in color like sapphire, issuing forth rays of blazing light. The main face is blue with a mixed expression of fierceness and desire.

The canine teeth are pointed and clenched, frowning and having three eyes. The right face is white in a peaceful manner, the left face is red in a desirous manner. All three faces are adorned with very beautiful eyebrows. 

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1400 – 1799
Lineage	Gelug and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

Mandalas of Guhyasamaja

Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja Mandala

This is a Mandala of Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja  from Central Tibet. Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja is depicted in the center of mandala.

The body colour of Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja  is purified gold. He has three faces and six hands. The main face is yellow, the right blue and the left white.

The first two hands embrace the Mother. The lower right hands hold a sword and arrow, and the lower left an utpala [flower] and bow; wearing jewel ornaments and having the thirty-two major and eighty minor marks; seated with the legs in the vajra posture.

Name	Manjuvajra
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Central Tibet
Date Range	1600 – 1699
Lineage	Sakya, Jonang (Sakya) and Buddhist
Size	62.23×52.71cm (24.50×20.75in)
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment, Fine Gold Line on Cotton
Appearance	Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Shelley & Donald Rubin

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Mandala

This is a Mandala of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja from Central Tibet. Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is depicted in the center of the mandala.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1500 – 1599
Lineage	Sakya and Buddhist
Size	78.74×67.31cm (31×26.50in)
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi – Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Rubin Museum of Art

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Buddhist Mandala

This is a Mandala of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja from Tibet. Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is depicted in the center of the mandala. Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from Shakya lineage.

The size of this mandala is 35.56×34.61cm (14×13.63in). The material used to make this mandala is Ground Mineral Pigment, Fine Gold Line on Cotton. Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is semi-peaceful in appearance.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1300 – 1399
Lineage	Shakya
Size	35.56×34.61cm (14×13.63in)
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment, Fine Gold Line on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Rubin Museum of Art

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Tibetan Mandala

This is a Mandala of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja from Tibet. Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is depicted in the center of a mandala, the principal deity of the Father (Method) classification of Anuttarayoga Tantra of Tantric Buddhism.

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is peaceful in appearance with a stern expression. He is blue in color. He has three faces and six hands, embracing the consort. Lineage teachers are seated along the top and descend at the sides.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1500 – 1599
Lineage	Sakya, Gelug and Buddhist
Size	67.31×59.06cm (26.50×23.25in)
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Rubin Museum of Art

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Mandala Art

This is a Mandala of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja from Tibet. Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is depicted in the center of a mandala.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance. He is from a Buddhist lineage. The material used to make this mandala is Cotton.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Lineage	Buddhist
Material	Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja Tibetan Mandala Art

This is a Mandala of Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja from Tibet. Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja is depicted in the center of a mandala.

He is peaceful in appearance. He is from a Sakya, Ngor (Sakya), and Buddhist lineage. The material used to make this mandala is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton.

Name	Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Lineage	Sakya, Ngor (Sakya) and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Asian Art Museum of San Francisco

Buddhist Guhyasamaja Mandala Art

Guhyasamaja is depicted in the center of a mandala. The identification for this mandala is based on the arrangement of symbols used to represent the deities inside the central palace. The composition belongs to a larger set of mandalas possibly the Vajravali or the Mitra Gyatsa compendium of Tantric practice

Name	Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	དཀྱིལ་འཁོར།
Chinese Name	曼陀罗（主页）（坛城）
Date Range	1700 – 1799
Lineage	Gelug and Buddhist
Collection	Private

Buddhist Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Mandala

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is depicted in the center of a mandala. He is from Jonang (Sakya) lineage. This mandala is from a Private collection. He is semi-peaceful in appearance.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Lineage	Jonang (Sakya)
Appearance	Semi-peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja Traditional Mandala

This is a Mandala of Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja from Tibet. Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja is depicted in the center of a mandala.

He is peaceful in appearance. He is from a Jonang (Sakya) lineage.

Name	Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Lineage	Jonang (Sakya)
Appearance	Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Traditional Mandala

This mandala of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from the American Museum of Natural History collection. The material used to make this mandala is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made in Tibet. He is from a Buddhist lineage.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance. The size of this mandala is 68.58×60.96cm (27x24in).

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Nepal
Date Range	1600 – 1699
Size	68.58×60.96cm (27x24in)
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Rubin Museum of Art

Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja Ritual Mandala

This is a Mandala of Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja from Tibet. This mandala is made between 1300 – 1399. Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja is depicted in the center of a mandala.

He is peaceful in appearance. He is from a Buddhist lineage. The material used to make this mandala is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton.

Name	Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1300 – 1399
Lineage	Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Traditional Mandala Art

The material used to make this mandala is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made in Tibet. He is from a Gelug lineage.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Lineage	Gelug
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male

Mandala of Chakrasamvara

The material used to make this Chakrasamvara mandala is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. This thangka was made in Tibet. He is from a Sakya. Kagyu, and Buddhist lineage. This mandala is made between 1300 – 1399.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance. This mandala is froma private a collection.

Name	Chakrasamvara
Tibetan Name	འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	勝樂金剛 (全图)
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1300 – 1399
Lineage	Sakya, Kagyu and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Classification	Deity
Collection	Private

Guhyasamaja Mandala

This is a Mandala of Guhyasamaja from Tibet. Guhyasamaja is depicted in the center of the mandala. Guhyasamaja is from Sakya, Ngor (Sakya) and Buddhist lineage.

The size of this mandala is 35.56×34.61cm (14×13.63in). The material used to make this mandala is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1400 – 1499
Lineage	Sakya, Ngor (Sakya) and Buddhist
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Classification	Deity

Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja Ritual Mandala Art

This is a Mandala of Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja from Tibet. This mandala was made between 1300 – 1399. Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja is depicted in the center of a mandala.

He is peaceful in appearance. He is from a Sakya and Buddhist lineage. This mandala is from The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Name	Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1300 – 1399
Lineage	Sakya and Buddhist
Appearance	Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Mandala Art

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is depicted in the center of a mandala. He is from Sakya and Buddhist lineage. This mandala is from a Anna Maria Rossi & Fabio Rossi collection.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance. The material used to make this mandala is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Lineage	Sakya and Buddhist
Appearance	Semi-peaceful
Classification	Deity
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Gender	Male
Collection	anna Maria Rossi & Fabio Rossi

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Tibetan Mandala Art

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is depicted in the center of a mandala. He is from Uncertain lineage. This mandala is from a Navin Kumar collection. He is semi-peaceful in appearance.

This mandala is made between 1300 – 1399. The material used to make this mandala is Ground Mineral Pigment, Fine Gold Line on Cotton.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Central Tibet
Lineage	Uncertain
Date Range	1300 – 1399
Appearance	Semi-peaceful
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment, Fine Gold Line on Cotton
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Navin Kumar

Statues of Guhyasamaja

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Statue

This statue of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from Tibet.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	ནོར་རྒྱུན་མ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	财源天母（佛教本尊）
Lineage	Buddhist
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1400 – 1499
Material	Metal, Mercuric Gild
Appearance	Semi- peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Female
Collection	Private

Guhyasamaja Buddhist Statue

This statue of Guhyasamaja is from Tibet.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	ནོར་རྒྱུན་མ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	财源天母（佛教本尊）
Lineage	Buddhist
Origin	Tibet
Appearance	Semi- peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Female
Collection	Private

Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja Buddhist Statue

This statue of Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja is from Tibet. Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja is from a Buddhist lineage. The material used to make this statue is Metal, Mercuric Gild.

He is peaceful in appearance. This statue is from private collection.

Name	Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Lineage	Buddhist
Origin	Nepal
Appearance	Peaceful
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

Guhyasamaja Tibetan Statue

This statue of Guhyasamaja is from Tibet. Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja is from a Buddhist lineage. This statue is from a private collection. Guhyasamaja is sitting on the lotus throne.

Name	Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Lineage	Buddhist
Classification	Deity
Collection	Private

Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Statue Art

This statue of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from Tibet. Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from a Buddhist lineage. The material used to make this statue is Metal.

He is semi-peaceful in appearance. This statue is from a private collection.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Lineage	Buddhist
Origin	Nepal
Appearance	Semi-Peaceful
Material	Metal
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

Guhyasamaja Statue Art

This statue of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from Tibet. Guhyasamaja is from a Buddhist lineage. The material used to make this statue is Metal, Mercuric Gild.

This statue is from a private collection.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Lineage	Buddhist
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1500 – 1599
Material	Metal, Mercuric Gild
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

Buddhist Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Statue Art

This statue of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from Tibet. Guhyasamaja is from a Buddhist lineage. The material used to make this statue is Metal, Mercuric Gild.

This statue is from a private collection.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Lineage	Buddhist
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1400 – 1499
Material	Metal, Mercuric Gild
Classification	Deity
Appearance	Semi-peaceful
Gender	Male
Collection	Private

Tibetan Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Statue

This statue of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from Tibet. This statue is from a Rubin Museum of Art collection. He has a body blue in color like sapphire, issuing forth rays of blazing light. The main face is blue with a mixed expression of fierceness and desire.

The canine teeth are pointed and clenched, frowning and having three eyes. His right face is white in a peaceful manner, his left face is red in a desirous manner. All three faces are adorned with very beautiful eyebrows. Each of the six hands is adorned with precious rings.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Classification	Deity
Appearance	Semi-peaceful
Gender	Male
Collection	Rubin Museum of Art

Buddhist Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Statue

This statue of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja is from Tibet. This statue is made between 1400 – 1499. This statue is from a Rubin Museum of Art collection.

The material used to make this statue is Metal. He is semi-peaceful in appearance. He has a body blue in color like sapphire, issuing forth rays of blazing light. The main face is blue with a mixed expression of fierceness and desire.

The canine teeth are pointed and clenched, frowning and having three eyes. His right face is white in a peaceful manner, his left face is red in a desirous manner. All three faces are adorned with very beautiful eyebrows. Each of the six hands is adorned with precious rings.

Name	Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin	Tibet
Date Range	1400 – 1499
Classification	Deity
Material	Metal
Appearance	Semi-peaceful
Gender	Male
Collection	Rubin Museum of Art

Buddhist Deity – Guhyasamaja Statue

This statue of Guhyasamaja is from The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The material used to make this statue is Bronze, Painted Face/Hair, Precious Stone. The size of this statue is 17.15cm (6.75in) high. The material used to make this statue is Metal, Mercuric Gild.

This statue is made between 1600 – 1699.

Name	Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name	གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name	密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Date Range	1600 – 1699
Size	17.15cm (6.75in) high
Material	Metal, Mercuric Gild
Classification	Deity
Gender	Male
Collection	The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art