This is a remarkable and highly valuable hand-painted thangka due to the amount of gold used in the artwork.

Samantrabadhra and Samantrabadhri concecrated thangka in excellent condition! It is a beautiful golden color with a lot of gold ornamentation. Om Mani Hung has been drawn on the back of the thangka in Tibetian, marking the crown, throat and heart chakras. 

In this thangka painting Samantabhadra is depicted embracing his consort Samantabhadri in Yab-Yum, the sacred union. He is blue inn color and sits naked in 'vajra' posture, with his two hands placed in his lap in the gesture of meditation. Samantabhadra is the representation of the original nature of the mind and symbol of unity between awareness and compassion.

According to traditional Tibetan Buddhism, Buddha Samantabhadra is the primordial Buddha and the central figure of the most important of all Tantras: the Guhyagarbha Tantra. In the verses of the Nyingma texts Samantabhadra is described as the “primordial Lord of unchanging light, the central origin of all mandalas, possessing the ocean of knowledge and pristine awareness”.

Measures 26 inches x 17 inches. The inner image measures 8 1/2 inches x 11 inches.