Chakrasamvara Dark gray stone Eastern India

The finely carved twelve-armed Heruka clasping his consort Vajravarahi with his principal arms crossed at the wrist behind her holding the vajra and ghanta in prajnalinganabhinaya, with prescribed ritual implements held in the remaining hands of the outstretched arms, a flayed elephant skin draped behind, Samvara stepping to his left in alidha, and trampling Bhairava and Kalaratri lying prostrate on a lotus pedestal supported by a stepped platform, the group surrounded by a flaming halo.

This exquisite miniature sculpture is one of a number that have survived from the workshops of Pala India, mostly now preserved in Tibetan monastery collections, see Ulrich von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, Hong Kong, 2001, p. 385, pl. 123C-D.