Buddhist statuette, Yidam Yamantaka Statue, and 17 similar items

Esoteric Buddhist statue, tantric Yidam Yamantaka in yab yum with his paredre Vetali The bronze used is called purple bronze. It is a high quality bronze, getting its characteristic color from a high copper content. Tibetan statuette made by specialized Tibetan craftsmen. Dimensions: 32cm high, 24cm wide by 13cm deep. Weight of 6,300kg The bottom unscrews to put offerings and prayers inside during the blessing like all traditional Buddhist statuettes Rare piece. Yam?ntaka is the "destroyer of death" deity of Vajrayana Buddhism. He is sometimes conceptualized as "conqueror of the lord of death". Yam?ntaka is a Sanskrit name that can be broken down into two main components: Yama, the god of death; and destructive antaka. Thus Yam?ntaka means "destroyer of death" or "conqueror of death". Cultural heritage of Kalanta, an aspect of the Hindu god Shiva who saves his disciple Yama from the clutches of death and is seen as the deity who was the origin of the Mahamrityunjaya Mantra of Buddhism and Hinduism. Its depiction mirrors Yama in many ways: very frequently riding a buffalo and often depicted with a bovine head. Because of this resemblance to Yama as well as similarity in name, one very frequently finds texts (which would seem to be reliable sources) confusing both Yamantaka and Yama as being the same deity when they are not. In Buddhism, "putting an end to death" is a quality of all Buddhas because they stopped the cycle of rebirth, samsara. Thus Yam?ntaka represents the goal of the Mahayana practitioner's journey to enlightenment, or the journey itself: at final awakening, one manifests Yam?ntaka – the end of death. Yam?ntaka is a wrathful expression of Mañju?r?, the Samyaksambuddha of wisdom which in other contexts also functions as a dharmapala or Heruka. The statuette represents Yam?ntaka in his yab yum form with his paredre Vetali In this form, Yamantaka is about to defeat Yama, the god of death. Yamantaka fits into the death story because his defeat of Yama signals Samsara (cycle of rebirth). Buddhism believes that stopping this cycle of rebirth is the quality of Buddhas and Yamantaka represents the end goal of attaining enlightenment by ending death. Yamantaka with a wrathful face, to discourage you from returning to a cycle of bad habits. It has 7 heads side by side and two other heads above the main one. Its main head has a crown of five skulls which represents the five negative afflictions (greed, delusion, hatred, jealousy, pride) and its transmutation into positive wisdom. The flame on the skulls and the fiery details above his eyes (as well as the patterns of fire in his aura) symbolize Yamantaka's power to transmute the five afflictions through flame. On the highest head is Manjushri, the Buddha of Wisdom. The yab-yum (literally father-mother) position emphasizes the union of masculine compassion and feminine wisdom. On his chest is Vetali holding a skullcap with blood which represents Great Bliss and Wisdom. He has twenty hands each holding a weapon or object. The first right hand holds the skin of an elephant as a sign of victory over narrow-mindedness. The remaining right hands also hold objects with their meanings such as the ax (to cut duality and ignorance), the dart (to pierce the design of objects), the pestle (to destroy mindfulness backwards), a harpoon (to to destroy defects in oneself), an arrow (to pierce through the preconceived idea), the skull-club (to protect against karma) and the Khatanga blade (to adapt to the nature of great practice), to name a few. Meanwhile, some items on his left hand include a skull cap with blood, head of Brahma (great compassion), shield (victory against Maras), leg (symbol of walk to enlightenment), lasso (endless wisdom), bell (sound of wisdom), hand (symbol for performing four activities), flags (emptiness of the three gates as one entity). Its 16 legs are also depicted, Those under the set of feet on his right side represent the Siddhis (powers gained through meditation) and include humans, buffalo, ox, donkey, dog, sheep and fox. Meanwhile, the feet on the left side are the eight powers vulture, owl, crow, parrot, hawk, kite, mynah and swan. At the bottom of the thangka are offerings to the three skulls. The left and right skulls are smaller and represent sperm and fertile blood, elements necessary for rebirth. The center offers represent the five senses