Esoteric Buddhist Statuette, Tantric Dakini, Naro Dakini, Sarvabuddhadakini. Purple bronze, unique and rare piece.

Esoteric Buddhist statuette, tantric Dakini, naro Dakini, Sarvabuddhadakini.

The bronze used is called purple bronze. It is a high quality bronze, getting its characteristic color from a high copper content.

unique and rare piece.

Dimension 19cm high by 12cm wide Weight of 1.047kg

The flaming crown is removable Dakini in Sanskrit, Khandro in Tibetan, literally means "sky dweller" or "sky dancer", and is the most sacred aspect of the feminine principle in Tibetan Buddhism, embodying both humanity and divinity in female form.

Dakinis can appear differently in various settings; if need be, she can come across as fierce and intense or playful and nurturing. At other times, it may seem outrageous or repugnant in order to cut through conceptual thinking and misperception. She can appear as a human being, as a goddess, peaceful or wrathful, or she can be perceived as the general play of energy in the phenomenal world.

In general, the dakini represents the ever-changing flow of energy that the yogic practitioner must work with in order to realize themselves. Ultimately, all women are seen as some sort of dakini manifestation. Nāroḍākinī is a deity in Vajrayana Buddhism similar to the Vajrayogini (red, walking, carrying a vajra) In the Sādhanamālā, she is said to be a transformation or an emanation of Vajrayogini. Nārodākinī is easily recognizable by his posture and his kapala. His head is raised, ready to soak up the blood spilling from his kapala, and his right hand wields a curved kartika.

Nārodākinī's physical attributes are interpreted with reference to long-held Buddhist principles as well as distinctly Tantric concepts. For example, her freely flowing hair is, in the Indian setting, the mark of a yogic practitioner, particularly one who cultivates tummo, while Buddhist exegetes interpret untied braids as a sign that her mind, free from all grasping, is a flood of non-conceptuality. His crown of five skulls represents his transformation of the five aspects of individuality into five transcendental glimpses of a Buddha.

Her garland of fifty severed heads symbolizes her purification of the fifty primary units of language and thought. Its bone ornaments represent five of the six perfections of a bodhisattva. Her body itself represents the sixth perfection, wisdom, which all female deities implicitly personify. Nārodākinī wears a mystical khaṭvāṅga, supported by his left arm or balanced on his left shoulder. The staff indicates that she is not celibate and has integrated eroticism into her spiritual path, mastering the art of transmuting pleasure into transcendent bliss. She manifested in an initiatory vision to the great Indian mahasiddha and teacher Naropa, (956-1040) receiving teachings from her. She is patroness of the Sakya school and an acolyte of Vajravārāhī. She is a sarvabuddhaḍākinī, having access to all Buddhas and is therefore more powerful. This form of Vajrayogini is the preeminent form of yogini in the Cakrasaṃvara and Vajravārāhī tantras.