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Vajravarahi (Dorje Phagmo)

 

 

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Vajravarahi is dakini   associated with Heruka Cakrasamvara.   Her status is not different from Vajrayogini.   She is said to be the consort or the Prajna   of Heruka Cakrasamvara.   She is always depicted in nude.

She is red in colour and stands on a reclining body of Bhairaba in dancing posture. She holds a Kartri  (Tigug knife) in her right hand on level of head and holds a kapala   filled with blood in her left. She carries a khatvanga   staff surmounted by three skulls. She wears a garland of fifty severed heads and various gold ornaments.

For a practice of sadhana   of Vajravarahi   an initiation (Skt. diksha )   is required. One of the peculiar feature of this deity is that she has an excrescene near the right ear, which resembles the face of a sow hence her name Vajravarahi.

 

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