Vajravarahi Samding Dorje Phagmo(Phamo) Oil Newari Painting Paubha in Canvas

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Samding Dorje Phagmo(Phamo) aka Hindu Vajravarahi
In her form as Vajravarahi, when she is known as 'the Vajra Sow' she is often pictured with a sow's head on the side of her own as an ornament and in one form has the head of a sow herself. Vajrayogin? is often associated with triumph over ignorance, the pig being associated with ignorance in Buddhism. This sow head relates to the origins of Vajravarahi from the Hindu sow-faced goddess Varahi. In days of old, before the time when the Buddha Gautama appeared, there was a hideous monster called Matrankaru, who spread ruin and terror over all the world. He was the chief of all the legions of demons, goblins, and other evil spirits; even the devils (raksha) of Ceylon had to become his subjects. He subdued to his rule not only this world, but the eight planets, the twenty-four constellations, the eight Nagas, and the gods. By his miraculous power he could lift Mount Ribab (Sumeru) on the end of his thumb.
Finally the Buddha and gods held council to compass about Matrankaru's destruction, and it was decided that Shenrezig should take the form of Tamdrin ("Horse-neck"), and his consort, Dolma, that of Dorje Phagmo ("the Diamond Sow"). When the two had assumed these forms they went to the summit of the Malaya mountains, and Tamdrin neighed three times, to fill the demon with terror, and Dorje Phagmo grunted five times, to strike terror into the heart of Matrankaru's wife, and soon both were lying prostrated at the feet of the two divinities.But their lives were spared them, and Matrankaru became a devout follower of the Buddha, a defender of the faith (chos gyong), and was given the name of Mahakala.
In 1716, when the Jungar invaders of Tibet came to Nangartse, their chief sent word to Samding to the Dorjo Phagmo to appear before him, that he might see if she really had, as reported, a pig's head. A mild answer was returned to him; but, incensed at her refusing to obey his summons, he tore down the walls of the monastery of Samding, and broke into the sanctuary. He found it deserted, not a human being in it, only eighty pigs and as many sows grunting in the congregation hall under the lead of a big sow, and he dared not sack a place belonging to pigs. When the Jungars had given up all idea of sacking Samding, suddenly the pigs disappeared to become venerable-looking lamas and nuns, with the saintly Dorje Phagmo at their head. Filled with astonishment and veneration for the sacred character of the lady abbess, the chief made immense presents to her lamasery.
The crown of five skulls symbolises Vajravarahi's power to transform the five negative afflictions into the Five Wisdoms.
The Sanskrit word klesha literally means 'defilement' or 'poison.' Normally obscured by greed, hatred, delusion, jealously & pride often called the five poisons.
The five wisdom levels are
1. Tathata Jana - the 'non-conceptualizing awareness' of Sunyata.
2. Adarsa Jana - the 'Mirror-like Awareness', 'devoid of all dualistic thought & in union with its 'images' as a mirror is with its reflections'.
3. Samata Jana - Awareness of Sameness, which perceives the sameness, the commonality of dharmas or phenomena,
4. Pratyaveksana Jana - 'Investigative Awareness'.
5. Krtyanusthana Jana - Accomplishing Activities, the awareness that spontaneously carries out all that has to be done for the welfare of beings.
Each of these Wisdom Energies has a unique association with one of the Five Buddha Groups.
Her threatening Tarjani hand gesture also known as Karana mudra is made with a raised index & little finger & by folding the other fingers usually around an object represents her energy aimed at clarifying ignorance. In this case she clasps a flaying knife symbolising her breaking the power of materialism. The word Kartika comes from the name of Shiva's Son.
Her right hand pours self regenerating uterine blood into her mouth from a skullcap representing her independence from the material world including men.
Vajravarahi is painted with a magical tantric staff leaning against her shoulder & which has impaled three heads. The first blue head is a fresh severed, the second red head is in decay and the third a white skull.
Vajravarahi stands in satyalida position with once leg held aloft & the other trampling on the deity Kalatri representing the ego.
She wears a necklace of fifty human heads as a symbol that she vanquishes the fifty negative emotions or 'forms' she has overcome. She is shown in a celestial dance position upon an orange sun disc associated with the feminine wisdom aspect & on a Lotus Throne representing Great Bliss, and her overall figure is surrounded by a circle of flames of immaculate consciousness.
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Size without Brocade: 18 inches by 27 inches
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