Vajrapani. Cultura: India (Kashmir). Dimensioni: H. 9. (22,9 cm); H. inc. base 10 1/4 in. (26 cm); W. 5 3/8 in. (13,7 cm). Data: fine 6-VII secolo. Questo potente figurine è inteso come il Mahayana bodhisattva Vajrapani si appropria di illuminazione lo scettro della vite (Skt: vajra) di indra, la tempesta vedico dio e riutilizzati. Il suo significato spostata da quella che è associato con la vita-affermando il potere delle tempeste (ad esempio i monsoni), il buddista Vajrapani salvatore, che facilita il cammino percorso dell illuminismo e aiutando le crystal clear pensato come penetrare come un illuminazione s

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Vajrapani. Culture: India (Kashmir). Dimensions: H. 9 in. (22.9 cm); H. inc. base 10 1/4 in. (26 cm); W. 5 3/8 in. (13.7 cm). Date: late 6th-7th century. This powerful figurine is best understood as the Mahayana bodhisattva Vajrapani, who appropriated the lighting-bolt scepter (Skt: vajra) of Indra, the Vedic storm god, and repurposed it. Its meaning shifted from that being associated with the life-affirming power of storms (e.g. the monsoons), to the Buddhist savior Vajrapani, who facilitates journeying the path of enlightenment and aiding crystal clear thought as penetrating as a lighting strike. In this, among the earliest representations known from the greater Kashmir world, the double-ended thunderbolt symbol is imposingly large, the shaft of which extends the length of Vajrapani's figure. In addition to the massive device with its distinctive prongs, the bodhisattva holds a rosary (aksamala). His face is somewhat abraded but traces of a moustache remain, and he wears a distinctive headdress of an elaborate cockade with hanging strings of pearls disgorging from the center, in the Gupta-manner. Large annular earplugs, also of known Gupta type, are shown frontally. He wears a sacred cord (yanopavita) and short waist cloth with a sheathed dagger secured in the belt. In his raised proper left hand he holds the oversized vajra, and his head is framed by a large unadorned circular halo. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

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