编号:HAR87220
中文名称:时轮金刚坛城
英文名称: Mandala of Kalachakra
尺幅:120.40x78.40cm (47.40x30.87in)
类别:彩唐
材质:棉布
题材:坛城
收藏:Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
地域:西藏
传承:格鲁
内容:
Shri Kalachakra Mandala (Tibetan: pal du kyi kor lo kyil kor. English: the Mandala of the Glorious Wheel of Time): surrounded by lineage teachers above and deities of the mandala below. At the bottom center is the protector Vajra Vega.
Sanskrit: Kalachakra
Tibetan: Du kyi kor lo
At the top left is the circular mandala of Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja. At the to right is the circular mandala of Vajrabhairava. At the bottom right is the circular mandala of Krishna Yamari, wrathful, blue in colour, with three faces and six arms. At the bottom left is the circular mandala of Rakta Yamari, wrathful, red in colour, with one face and two arms.
Along the top of the composition are the twenty-five Vidyadaras of the Shambhala Pureland. At the very top center is Heruka Kalachakra with one face and two hands embracing the yellow consort Vishvamata. Below that is Tsongkapa, founder of the Gelug Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.
At the bottom right corner is Panjarnata Mahakala, Shri Devi, Vaishravana Riding a Lion and Yama Dharmaraja.
Jeff Watt 4-2001 [updated 8-2009]
