Vajrapani Thangka 33"x41" Vendor_Bero Jeydren (Physical Texts) known as a Kapala in

known as a Kapala in Sanskrit

Here he has his characteristic big belly and is holding a jewel-disgorging mongoose in his left hand

a concise treatise by the eleventh-century Tibetan Buddhist philosopher Rongzom Chökyi Zangpo

Padmasambhava’s oral teachings to his chief disciple – Yeshe Tsogyal

adherents of the “new schools” of Tibetan Buddhism fostered by these new translations cast the older tradition of lineages and transmissions as impure and decadent

Vajrapani Thangka 33"x41" Vendor_Bero Jeydren (Physical Texts) known as a Kapala inBeautiful hand painted thangka from Nepal depicting the guardian bodhisattva of the Vajrayana, Vajrapani. His name means "the vajra holder," for he holds all the hidden teachings of the secret mantra tradition. He carries a snake lasso to bind the demon of self cherishing the second it arises. Vajrapani stands in a swirling inferno of wisdom fire which incinerates the causes of all obscuration and disease. This iconography is suitable for the practice