This 13″ Vajrayogini statue is finished in oxidized copper with silver plated details — the figure, lotus pedestal, and flame mandorla all in the warm, aged copper treatment with silver highlights on the jewelry, lotus pedestal, robe elements, and flame tips. The combination produces a dramatically different visual effect from the gilded presentations: darker, more austere, more immediately powerful. The statue was handcrafted in Patan, Nepal by master Newar artisans using the traditional lost wax sculpting method. Two distinctive practical features: the frame (mandorla) and the khatvanga staff are both removable, allowing the buyer to display the figure alone or with the full assembly, and to adjust the presentation to suit the altar space. Discover the Naro Kacho lineage in our complete Vajrayogini statues guide.
The Naro Kacho iconographic tradition, as first visualized by the mahasiddha Naropa, deliberately holds two qualities in simultaneous tension: extraordinary beauty and fierce wrathfulness. Vajrayogini in this form is radiantly beautiful — young, naked, adorned with jewels — and simultaneously terrifying: wielding instruments of death, trampling on worldly deities, surrounded by flames. This juxtaposition is not accidental but pedagogically precise. Ordinary discriminating thought classifies experience as attractive or repulsive, beautiful or ugly. The Naro Kacho figure presents both simultaneously, in a single image that cannot be resolved by ordinary perception — a visual koan that begins to unsettle the habitual mind and open it toward a different mode of perception. Read our Dakini statues FAQ for answers about Vajrayogini iconography and practice.
Vajrayogini Statue Features
Vajrayogini holds the kartika (curved flaying knife) in her right hand and raises the kapala (skull cup, filled with blood symbolizing the transmutation of life-force into bliss-wisdom) in her left. She wears a garland of fifty skulls over her shoulders and a crown of five skulls on her diadem — representing the transformation of the five afflictive emotions into the five wisdoms. The khatvanga staff rests against her left arm, its presence signifying her inseparable union with her consort Heruka (Chakrasamvara). She stands on a single lotus pedestal, her feet on the principal worldly goddess Kalarati and the principal worldly god Bhairava — symbolizing her complete transcendence of all worldly conditions. The flames of burning awareness encircle the entire assembly, consuming all neurotic states that obstruct realization. She has eliminated the three poisons of ignorance, hatred, and greed, and embodies the inseparable union of wisdom and compassion in their most direct, unobstructed form.
Authentic, Handmade in Nepal
Every statue and ritual item is handcrafted in Patan, Nepal, using traditional lost wax casting and comes with a certificate of authenticity issued by Nepal's Department of Archaeology, verifying its materials, technique, and origin.
