Description
This Dudjom Vajrakilaya archival quality print on canvas has the beauty of a hand painted t’hangka with several times the longevity. Whereas painted t’hangkas wear with time, these archival quality prints will stay pristine for hundreds of years. The paper prints are on archival quality paper. This completely color accurate reproduction is printed from a high resolution scan of a Vajrakilaya t’hangka that was painted under the direction of Jigme Tromge Rinpoche.
Available on Canvas (17 x 11.1 inches) & paper (9.5 x 6.5 inches).
Vajrakilaya: Skt. Vajrakīlaya; Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ་ Dorje Phurba, or Skt. Vajrakumāra; Tib. རྡོ་རྗེ་གཞོན་ནུ་, Dorje Shön-nu. Heruka Vajrakilaya is the yidam deity who embodies the enlightened activity compassionate wrath. Vajrakilaya is powerful for removing obstacles, destroying the forces of negative tendencies, and purifying spiritual faults. The oldest tradition of Vajrakilaya is the Kön Vajrakilaya, which is an unbroken lineage of the Vajrakilaya practice since Guru Rinpoche introduced it in Tibet. More recently great tertons such as Dudjom Rinpoche (Dudjom Jikdral Yeshe Dorje) have revealed Vajrakilaya practices (’Pudri Rekpung: The Razor that Destroys at the Touch’) that are practiced widely.
T’hangka: Tib. ཐང་ཀ་ t’hang-ka, is an iconographic painting on canvas of buddhas, bodhisattvas, mandalas, and great practitioners. The images on a t’hangka are painted according to classical proportions and the gestures, implements, and colors of the painted subject have symbolic spiritual value related directly to visualization practice. The canvas is usually mounted onto a brocade cloth frame and hung on a wall. Any image of a buddha or holy being is considered sacred, thus t’hangka should be displayed in a dignified place. T’hangkas can be rolled up like a scroll for transportation.
