Vajrayogini Mandala Thangka Print

Vajrayogini Mandala Thangka Print

SKU: 81002183

Vajrayogini Mandala Thangka Print

SKU: 81002183
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A high-quality thangka print of Naro Kacho Vajrayogini, whose practice is one of the highest tantras in Tibetan Buddhism, and can lead us to Enlightenment in just one lifetime. 

Making offerings to her image makes a connection with this extremely potent Vajrayogini Buddha, as her blessings become more powerful as times degenerate. Keeping her image plants seeds of enlightenment in our mindstream, pacifies our immediate environment, and clears negative energy.

This complex thangka depicts the various lineage masters going all the way back to Buddha Vajradhara, who is actually Buddha Shakyamuni is tantric form:

  • Upper left: The main tantric deities – Yamantaka, Heruka Chakrasamvara and Guhyasamaja.
  • Upper right: Buddhas of the past and present – Krakucchanda, Kasyapa and Shakyamuni.
  • Bottom left: The three long-life deities – Amitayus, Namgyalma and White Tara.
  • Bottom right: Chenrezig, Manjushri and Vajrapani, who, taken together can be said to represent the great 14th century Tibetan scholar and saint, Lama Tsongkhapa.
  • Below Vajrayogini are two Dharma Protectors: 4-faced Mahakala (a wrathful emanation of Heruka) and Citipati, the special Protector for Vajrayogini practitioners.
  • Available in a choice of materials and sizes. 
  • As each print is made-to-order, this item will be shipped within 7-10 working days from the date of purchase.
  • The finished item may vary slightly from the listed sizes as the height and width are based on the size of the original art piece.

This thangka can be enhanced with a traditional brocade frame to increase merits and blessings. We offer thangka sewing services with a choice of fabrics in various materials and colours to suit your style and budget.

About Vajrayogini

A representation of complete Buddhahood in female form, Vajrayogini embodies the qualities of the Buddhas of the ten directions and three times. Her tantra is the most supreme among all the Highest Yoga Tantras. As our lives today are ruled by extreme lust, greed, anger and hatred, she uses these very forces to attract us and then transforms them into liberating energies.

Vajrayogini is particularly suitable for the people of our time because her practice helps to purify and transform desire, which is the current and most pervasive energy within samsara. In fact, she manifested specifically to pacify our self-created inner obstacles that are provoked by the outer environment we live in. Therefore, her blessings are very potent and powerful for this day and age.

Vajrayogini’s form represents the Three Principal Aspects of the Path (Renunciation, Bodhicitta and Emptiness) which are crucial for success in Buddhist practice, especially Tantric practice.

Her face looks in our direction out of great concern for us, and her three eyes indicate her ability to see the past, present and future. Her blissful yet wrathful expression indicates that she is free from suffering, but is unhappy to witness our sufferings and the results of our negative karma.

Her body is at the prime of youth and beauty. The red colour of her skin represents the energy of control, and her form is naked to subdue and transform minds that are filled with lust and desire. She wears a crown of five skulls representing the Five Dhyani Buddhas and is adorned with a garland of 50 dried skulls and other bone ornaments.

She raises a skullcup filled with blood in her left hand, representing great bliss, impermanence and emptiness. Her right hand holds a curved knife with wrathful mudra, showing that her practice can destroy the direct causes of our samsara — ignorance, hatred and desire. The khatvanga (tantric ritual staff) on her left shoulder represents her consort Heruka.

Her left leg is bent, stepping on the head and heart of the worldly deity Bhairava, representing the elimination of hatred and ignorance, while her right leg is straight, stepping on the breasts of Kalarati, representing the destruction of desire and its associated negative karmas.

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A3 Canvas Print

  • Specifications: Inkjet print on canvas
  • Print Size: Height 406 mm (16-in) x Width 256 mm (10.1-in)
  • Wrapping Allowance: 51 mm (2-in)
  • Weight: 0.4 kg (0.8 lb)

Poster Canvas Print

  • Specifications: Inkjet print on canvas
  • Print Size: Height 864 mm (34-in) x Width 544 mm (21.4-in)
  • Wrapping Allowance: 76 mm (3-in)
  • Weight: 0.6 kg (1.3 lb)

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