Tibetan Buddhist Deity Red Vajrasattva Sculpture
This Tibetan Red Vajrasattva Sculpture symbolizes the Buddhas' all-encompassing purity of body, speech, and thought. According to popular belief, the deity erases the bad karmic imprints left behind by the ten immoral deeds and precepts, vow, and commitment violations. This immaculate work of art took our artisans months to create since it has a body made entirely of pure copper and is then gilded with 24-karat real gold. The deity in the statue is depicted as seated on a lotus, holding a vajra in his right hand and a bell in his left, and with a tranquil expression. We have adorned the deity with precious gemstones on the crown, and body ornaments like necklaces, and bracelets. To highlight the facial expression of the deity we used acrylic paintings.
This figurine of Vajrasattva may be used for a variety of Buddhist rituals and meditation exercises, making it the ideal present for a practitioner like you.
Size: 8.6"/22cm (Height) x 6.2"/16cm (Base)
Weight: 1.53 kg
Material: 24K Gold Gilded, Copper Body, Acrylic Paintings
Vajrasattva is typically regarded as the second patriarch in the Shingon Buddhist lineage, the first being Vairocana Buddha. According to Kukai's writings in Record of the Dharma Transmission, Nagarjuna encountered Vajrasatva in an iron tower in southern India, based on Amoghavajra's testimony. As recounted in the Mahavairocana Sutra, Vajrasatva inducted Nagarjuna into the abhiseka ceremony and entrusted him with the esoteric teachings he had gained from Vairocana Buddha. Kukai doesn't go into detail on Vajrasatva or his beginnings.
