Beautifully skillful and elaborate thangka painting of Heruka Chakrasamvara with Consort Vajravarahi. Abundant gold detailing and extensive entourage.  Rolled and ready for brocade or frame.   26.25" x 37"

Chakrasamvara: Chakrasamvara ('Wheel of Perfect Bliss' or 'Wheel of Union') is a tantric meditational deity (Sanskrit: ishta-deva) of the Highest Yoga (Anuttara) Tantra class of Vajrayana Buddhism. The Chakrasamvara Tantra, also known as Shriherukabhidhana and Laghusamvara was composed in Northern India in the late 8th or early 9th century. Along with the Hevajra Tantra it is the most important Mother Tantra emphasizing female deities, like yoginis and dakinis. Mother Tantra practices focus more on clear light mental activity and blissful awareness of emptiness, as the immediate cause for achieving a Buddha's omniscient awareness or dharmakaya.

Chakrasamvara, also called 'Heruka', is typically depicted standing upright, with a blue-colored body, four faces, and twelve arms, and embracing his consort Vajravarahi in the yab-yum position (=sexual union). It is Buddha Shakyamuni who manifests in the form of Heruka for the benefit of all sentient beings and therefore he is considered the source of this high tantra. There are three main Chakrasamvara (practice) transmissions coming from these Indian mahasiddhas (masters of tantric yoga):  Luipa, Krishnacharya (also called: Kanhapa or Nagpopa), and Ghantapa (also called: Drilbupa). Besides those there are over 50 different lineages of the Chakrasamvara practice in Tibet.

-www.chakrasamvara.com