Chakrasamvara Tibetan Thangka Painting

Description

Chakrasamvara Tibetan Thangka Painting is hand-painted in Cotton Canvas in Kathmandu, Nepal. The size of this thangka is 71*96 cm. This is a fine quality thangka painting of Chakrasamvara with Shakti.

Chakrasamvara is presented at the center of the thangka. Chakrasamvara represents the incandescent flow of creative energies, both in the macrocosm as well as in the universe of the human body/mind.

Iconography of Chakrasamvara

Chakrasamvara’s implements and ornaments celebrate the vanquishing of ego-driven spiritual paths. Chakrasamvara is the wheel of supreme bliss is an icon of the enlightened mind in which desire and wrath are transformed into rapturous compassions. He wears tiger skin wrapped around his dark – blue waist and elephant skin across his back.

He wears bone ornaments and a tiara of skulls. In his first two hands, he holds a bell and a vajra, symbolizing the dynamic interplay of emptiness and bliss. In his other hands, he holds a skull cup, a snare, the head of the Hindu god Brahma, a Tantric staff (khatvanga), a sword, a flaying knife, a trident, and a drum.

He is surrounded by a halo of flames and stands on a sun disc trampling on the mundane passions symbolized by the Hindu god Bhairava and his consort, Kalaratri.

Chakrasamvara’s blissful radiance converts timid responses to reality into a radical engagement. When desire no longer clings to its object, it awakens to its primordial nature, which no longer divides into self and other. This blissful awareness encompasses all life and emotions, combusting in the liberating vision of selfless ecstasy.