Chakrasamvara is the deity of Highest Yoga Tantra. Chakrasamvara is one of the most popular forms of Yidam deity among Nepalese Buddhists. Almost all the Shakyas and the Vajracharyas of Patan and Kathmandu regard Chakrasamvara as their tutelary deity or Yidam deity. Nepalese Buddhist Vajracharyas have the age old tradition of practice of Chakrasamvara, a highly developed technique of contemplation to realize Clear light and emptiness aspect of the mind. A special Tantra called Chakrasamvaramula Tantra is dedicated to this Yidam deity. Chakrasamvara has many forms. One of the popular forms is described below:
Chakrasamvara in this form is deep blue in color. Chakrasamvara has four faces. The front face is blue-black, right face is white, back face is yellow, his left face is red. Chakrasamvara is in ecstatic union with his consort Vajravarahi, red in color. His front hands embrace his consorts with Vajra and bell. His next right hands hold a Damaru, a Kartri, a trident and an axe. His next left hand holds a Khatvanga staff, a severed head of Brahma, a Kapala and a lasso. With his back two hands he is lifting freshly flayed skin of an elephant. Chakrasamvara wears a crown of skulls and a garland of fifty freshly severed heads and skulls. Chakrasamvara also wears a tiger skin loin cloth. His front face with three eyes gazes at his consort.
His consort Vajravarahi is beautiful and bright red in color. Her hair is black. She wears bracelets and anklets as well as ornaments in her girdle. Her right arm is thrown upward holding a Kartri and her left arms circled tightly around Samvara’s neck with her face posed upwards. Under her feet are the Samvara’s own emanations viz. red, four armed Kalaratri and blue four armed Bhairava.
Both the deities Samvara and Vajravarahi are Buddhas by their own right. Their union symbolizes that wisdom and compassion are indivisible in the enlightened state. The twelve arms of Samvara symbolize twelve links of dependent origination. His garland of fresh severed heads symbolizes his victory over ego grasping and self cherishing attitudes.
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