danielwamba: Vajrapani and consort, Tibet, 15th-16th century Distemper on silk; the blue-skinned w
danielwamba: Vajrapani and consort, Tibet, 15th-16th century Distemper on silk; the blue-skinned wrathful Dharmapala stepping to the right in pratyalidha, holding a vajra in his raised right hand and a ghanta in the left, wearing a flayed tiger-skin loincloth, a skull crown and jewellery of snakes and gold and beaded human bone, long necklaces of severed heads and skulls, a diaphanous scarf over the shoulders, and a golden vajra emerging from the orange hair bound with a snake, the face with three eyes and wide open mouth revealing white fangs and a curling red tongue, with flaming eyebrows, moustache and beard, and clasping his blue-skinnedprajna, naked but for golden earrings, beaded human bone jewellery and a skull crown and necklace, and holding a blood-filled kapala in her left hand and kartrika flaying knife in her right, the couple trampling prostrate Hindu deities on a lotus pedestal, all set against a background of fire and smoke with Garuda above flanked by Chakrasamvara to the left and Vajrapani to the right -- source link