Vajrapani - Wikipedia
In Cambodia, three monasteries dated to 953 AD are dedicated to the worship of the triad of the Buddha—Prajnaparamita and Vajrapani; image of Vajrapani with four arms is venerated in one …
Vajrapani | Project Himalayan Art - rubinmuseum.org
The Vajrapani statue belongs to a set of six sculptures brought from an abandoned monastery near Dolonnuur, Inner Mongolia, by the geographer and explorer Sven Hedin in 1930.
The Bodhisattva Vajrapani - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In Buddhism it assumed an affiliation with diamonds and their indestructible nature, hence the term Vajrayana, or "diamond-path," Buddhism, as it is preserved in Nepal and Tibet. This …
Vajrapani - Encyclopedia of Buddhism
A famous 3 metres tall stone statues of Vairocana, Padmapani, and Vajrapāni triad can be found in central chamber of Mendut temple, located around 3 kilometres east from Borobudur, …
Item: Vajrapani (Bodhisattva & Buddhist Deity) - Himalayan Art
Images of Vajrapani are relatively common in both painting and sculpture. Other deities could hold the vajra aside from just Vajrapani. The bag or mongoose in the left hand is generally an …
Buddhist Deity: Vajrapani (peaceful, vajra & bell)
In depictions and sets of paintings, or sculpture of the Eight Bodhisattvas, Vajrapani holds either a vajra scepter alone or a vajra and a bell. There is no standard iconography for these …
Buddhist Deity: Vajrapani Main Page - Himalayan Art
Vajrapani figures have two main types: non-iconic appearance (Sutra based) and iconic appearance (Tantra based).
Vajrapani, the Thunderbolt-Bearing Bodhisattva | Bangladesh
The Met's collection of Asian art—more than 35,000 objects, ranging in date from the third millennium B.C. to the twenty-first century—is one of the largest and most comprehensive in …
Vajrapani | India (Kashmir) | The Metropolitan Museum of Art
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 237. This powerful figurine is best understood as the Mahayana bodhisattva Vajrapani, who appropriated the lighting-bolt scepter (Skt: vajra) of …
Vajrapāṇi - Tibetan Buddhist Encyclopedia
For the yogi, Vajrapani is a means of accomplishing fierce determination and symbolizes unrelenting effectiveness in the conquest of negativity. His taut posture is the active warrior …