This 25cm Chakrasamvara yab-yum statue is gold plated throughout, with turquoise stones embedded in the jewelry and ornaments of both figures — the blue-green of the turquoise providing the only colour accent in an otherwise fully golden composition. The statue was handcrafted in Patan, Nepal by master Newar artisans using the traditional lost wax sculpting method, with fine detail throughout the figures, flame mandorla, and lotus throne base. The gold plated finish with embedded turquoise stones gives this presentation a warmer, more richly adorned character than the oxidized copper version of the same composition.
This statue depicts the two-armed Ekavira (“Solitary Hero”) form of Chakrasamvara — the simplified, accessible form used for personal yidam practice, as distinct from the twelve-armed, four-faced form of the full mandala. The Ekavira form is the standard presentation for practitioners engaged in daily Chakrasamvara visualization, where the simplified iconography allows the meditator to generate the complete deity without the complexity of the full mandala assembly. In his right hand behind his consort, Chakrasamvara holds the vajra (representing compassionate method) and in his left the ghanta (bell, representing wisdom and the direct experience of emptiness) — their union in the joined hands of the yab-yum expressing the inseparability of these two qualities in the state of full enlightenment. His consort Vajravarahi holds the kartika (flaying knife, cutting through ego-identity) in her right hand and the kapala (skull cup, filled with blood representing the transmutation of life-force) in her left. Together they stand on the prostrate forms of Bhairava and Kalarati, representing ego-grasping and dualistic conceptuality respectively — and in their transcendence of both, expressing the Vajrayana principle that full enlightenment moves beyond both samsara and the lesser nirvana of passive withdrawal.
The Chakrasamvara Tantra — also known as the Discourse of Sri Heruka, from which Chakrasamvara’s alternate name Heruka derives — belongs to the Mother class of Anuttarayoga Tantra, the highest of the four classes of Tantric teaching. Its transmission entered Tibet in the eighth and ninth centuries and has remained unbroken in the Kagyu, Sakya, and Gelug lineages to the present day. Practitioners engaged in formal Chakrasamvara sadhana with proper empowerment are understood to have access to both mundane siddhis (extraordinary capacities arising as byproducts of advanced practice) and the supreme siddhi of full liberation.
Chakrasamvara Statue Features
The composition presents Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi in yab-yum embrace in the two-armed Ekavira form, standing on Bhairava and Kalarati within an elaborate flame mandorla, mounted on a round lotus throne. Turquoise stones are embedded throughout the jewelry of both figures. The gold plated finish across the entire composition — figures, mandorla, and base — presents the deity in the formally adorned, luminous quality appropriate to a dedicated Tantric practice altar.
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.
