A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF CHAKRASAMVARA14/15th century The deities in yab-yum with twelve-armed Chakrasamvara wearing a tiger skin around his waist and a garland of severed heads descending between his legs, Vajravarahi wrapping her limbs around him, gazing into the first of his four wrathful faces, pedestal. 19cm (7 1/2in) high (excluding the pedestal). (2). 十四/十五世紀 銅鎏金勝樂金剛像 Through its beauty,plexity, and energy, this exquisite figure expresses one of the most important transcendental ideals in Buddhist art – the supreme bliss of enlightenment attained through the perfect union of wisdom andpassion. The male deity, Chakrasamvara, represents Buddha-likepassion. The female deity, Vajravarahi, embodies Buddha-like wisdom. They are depicted here in ecstatic embrace. He cradles her in his primary arms, producing vajrahumkara mudra by crossing the vajra and ghanta in his hands, symbolising that wisdom andpassion have dissolved into one perfect interpenetrative union. Chakrasamvara (literally meaning 'Wheel of Bliss') is the transformative deity yiddam at the heart of the 'Chakrasamvara Tantra', one of the main Tantric Wisdom traditions. This sculpture sought to inspire the practitioner toplete his practice and achieve that same blissful state of mind. Until then, every symbolic nuance of the deity's iconography will help him to fullyprehend the deity's consciousness. Chakrasamvara features prominently across all Tibetan Buddhist schools and is the principal transformative deity of both Kagyu and Sakya lineages. Rising to great prominence in the 14th-16th centuries, both these orders formed strong ties with the Imperial Yuan and Ming Courts, and Tibetan Buddhist iconography strongly informed Buddhist art of the early Ming period. pare with a related but larger gilt-bronze figure of Chakrasamvara, 15th century, illustrated by F.Rüttimann, Liebeskunst: Liebeslust und Liebesleid in der Weltkunst , Zurich, 2002, p.131, no.93, which was sold at New York, 16 March 2015, lot 18.