A bronze of Cakrasamvara

Description:

Tibet, 19th cent.
H. 16,2 cm
Cakrasamvara in "loving" union with the wisdom partner Vajravarahi. This union symbolically includes "skilful means" as the masculine principle and "perfect insight" as the feminine principle. Skilful means are referred to as compassion and perfect wisdom and insight as the emptiness of all phenomena.
Old and important German private collection, collected from the 1950s until 2007 - Slightly chipped, attributes partly lost