This 13.5″ Chakrasamvara yab-yum statue is fully fire gilded in 24K gold — the multi-armed figures, red-painted flame mandorla with gold flame highlights, and double lotus throne all in the partly gilded gold-and-red treatment that presents the deity in his most visually dynamic and iconographically complete form. At 13.5″ this is the largest Chakrasamvara in the Golden Buddha collection and the only fully fire gilded version, suited to a formal Dharma center altar or a dedicated Tantric practice shrine where the scale and finish command the appropriate presence for a principal yidam figure. The statue was handcrafted in Patan, Nepal by master Newar artisans using the traditional lost wax sculpting method.
Chakrasamvara (Heruka) embraces his consort Vajravarahi in the yab-yum of inseparable wisdom and compassionate method — his right hand holding the vajra and left the ghanta bell behind her, the union of these two implements in the joined hands expressing what their embrace expresses in form: that wisdom and method are not two qualities that happen to be combined but a single non-dual reality that only appears as two from within the perspective of ordinary conceptual mind. The two figures stand in the warrior posture on the prostrate forms of Bhairava and Kalarati — representing ego-grasping and dualistic conceptuality — expressing the complete transcendence of both samsara and the lesser passive nirvana: Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi stand above both, beyond both extremes, the embodiment of the Great Bliss that is neither samsara nor its mere negation.
The defining practice of the Chakrasamvara tradition is self-generation (Tib: bdag bskyed) — the meditative process through which the practitioner generates themselves as Chakrasamvara in union with Vajravarahi, transforming ordinary self-grasping into the direct experience of being the deity. This is not a metaphor or a visualization exercise in the psychological sense but a precise method for actualizing the recognition that one’s own awareness is inseparable from the Heruka’s enlightened mind. The statue on the altar serves as the external support for this practice: the practitioner’s gaze on the statue supports the generation of the clear appearance of the deity, until the distinction between the external image and the internal visualization dissolves into a single field of awareness. The Chakrasamvara Tantra — also known as the Discourse of Sri Heruka, from which the name Heruka derives — belongs to the Mother class of Anuttarayoga Tantra. Its unbroken transmission has continued from the eighth and ninth centuries to the present day in the Kagyu, Sakya, and Gelug schools, offering practitioners access to both mundane siddhis and the supreme siddhi of full liberation.
Chakrasamvara Statue Features
The 13.5″ composition presents Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi in the multi-armed yab-yum form within a red and gold flame mandorla of pristine awareness, standing on Bhairava and Kalarati on a double lotus throne. The fully fire gilded gold finish across the figures and the painted red mandorla give the statue a visually striking two-tone presentation — the bright gold of enlightened form against the consuming red of the flames that burn away all obscurations — making it the most formally imposing Chakrasamvara presentation in the collection.
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.
