Vajrayogini Statue 15.5″ | Naro Kacho Form, 24K Gold Gilded

This 15.5″ Vajrayogini statue is partly fire gilded in 24K gold — the figure herself fully gilded, mounted within a flame mandorla whose oxidized dark copper body with gold flame tips creates a striking contrast against the fully gilded Dakini at its center. The lotus pedestal follows the same two-tone treatment: dark oxidized copper with a gold rim. The statue was handcrafted in Patan, Nepal by master Newar artisans using the traditional lost wax sculpting method, with the face hand-painted. Have questions about Vajrayogini statues? Read our Dakini statues FAQ, covering Vajrayogini iconography, the difference between Vajrayogini and Vajravarahi, and choosing the right statue for your practice.

The most distinctive feature of the Naro Kacho Vajrayogini is her upward gaze — she looks directly toward the Pure Land of the Dakinis, not outward toward the practitioner. In Vajrayogini practice literature, this gaze is specifically connected to the practice of phowa — consciousness transference — in which the practitioner trains to direct their consciousness upward through the crown of the head toward Vajrayogini’s pure land at the moment of death, bypassing the ordinary conditions of rebirth. The pure land she gazes toward is described in tantric texts as a realm of self-arising great bliss — not a heavenly realm of external pleasures but the state of rigpa itself made fully manifest, the awareness that Vajrayogini embodies and that the practitioner is training to recognize. Her upward gaze is therefore not an aesthetic choice but a practice instruction built into the iconography. Learn more about Vajrayogini’s iconography in our complete Vajrayogini statues guide.

Vajrayogini Statue Features

Vajrayogini embodies the inseparability of great bliss and emptiness — free from ignorance, selfishness, and the craving ego, working entirely for the benefit of beings. She holds the kartika (flaying knife) in her right hand and the kapala (skull cup, filled with blood symbolizing the transmutation of life-force into bliss-wisdom) in her left. The khatvanga staff leans against her left shoulder, its triple skull finial representing liberation from the three worlds of desire, form, and formlessness — and its presence signifying her inseparable union with her consort Chakrasamvara (Heruka). Her crown of five skulls represents the transformation of the five afflictive emotions into the five wisdoms. She wears a garland of fifty skulls and her three eyes perceive past, present, and future simultaneously. She stands with her feet on the principal worldly goddess Kalarati and the principal worldly god Bhairava, surrounded by the flames of pristine awareness.