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A gilt-bronze figure of Kalachakra and Vishvamata 19th century or later
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The separately cast deities engaged in an intimate yabyum embrace, the four-headed Kalachakra enveloping his four-headed eight-armed consort Vishvamata with his principal arms crossed at the wrist holding the vajra and bell, his remaining twenty-two hands and her four hands all holding various ritual implements, both figures trampling the Brahminical gods Kama and Maheshvara under foot, all supported on a double-lotus pedestal, fitted box.
20.3cm (8in) high. (2).
Footnotes
The term 'Kalachakra' means cycles of time, and refers to the cycles of the planets, seasons, and even the cycles of human breathing. Buddha is believed to have manifested himself in the form of Kalachakra after his paranirvana and as such, Kalachakra is considered a Buddha. Since everything is under the influence of time, Kalachakra is omnipresent. Vishvamata, his spiritual consort and complement, symbolises everything that is timeless, not bound by time, or out of the realm of time. In spiritual embrace, they form a perfect union of time and timelessness.
十九世紀或已後 鎏金銅時輪金剛雙修立像