A Mandala of Hevajra

Acquired by the current owner in the 1970s/1980s

Colors brighter and richer than in catalogue illustration. Some rubbing and wear overall with minor losses to pigments. Some horizontal cracking along bottom register center and upper left quadrant, consistent with age. Exhibited in a temporary frame.
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Hevajra and Nairatma with eight dakini at the center of the mandalapalace, surrounded by lotus petals, eight charnel ground scenes and a ring of flames, with Ratnasambhava Hevajra upper left outside the mandala circle, Amitabha Hevajra upper right, Vairochana Hevajra lower left and Amoghasiddhi Hevajra lower right, all bordered with registers of Mahasiddhas, monks and protector deities.

Compare the style of a fourteenth century Akshobyavajra mandala, see M. Rhie and R. Thurman, Worlds of Transformation, New York, 1999, p. 433, pl. 171. For a detailed description of the mandala of Hevajra, see J. Huntington and D. Bangdel, The Circle of Bliss, Columbus/Chicago, 2003, pp. 461-5, cat. no 142.