My Beautiful Vajra Yogini Statue
This is the beautiful 5 feet statue of Vajra Yogini I had Kechara Discovery (KD) create for others and myself. It took nearly 8 months to do it correctly, but once done to my satisfaction, KD can and has produced for others.
Many people have asked about it, and I told them to contact KD head Liaison Paul Yap.
Paul has a wonderful eye and very artistic so he is able to create the statues according to my descriptions.I really enjoy working with Paul for these years because he’s a very sincere and nice person with a heart of gold.
I was very pleased with this sacred VY statue.
We make extensive offerings to her daily to gather a great amount of merits to achieve the 11 sacred yogas of Her practice.
We have a butterlamp house in our Kathmandu Ladrang dedicated to Her. So we have already offered one hundred thousand butterlamps last year to Sacred Vajra Yogini.
I thought I’d post these pictures up for everyone to recieve blessings, inspirations and hopefully set up their own very holy Vajra Yogini shrine of any size in their homes.
Behind Sacred Vajra Yogini is a Heruka Cakrasamvara thangka. We have many silver Butterlamps in front of Her with ornaments hanging to make the Butterlamps even more attractive. Offerings to Her should be done to the best of one’s abilities. Our enlightenment for the sake of others is worth this.
This is a wonderful closeup of the 5ft Vajra Yogini’s holy face. Slightly wrathful, with a slight sensuous smile.
Another angle.
Frontal half body
Full body
She’s at Kechara Saraswati Arts studio here in Malaysia getting ‘fixed’ up.
We painted the face of the 5ft Vajra Yogini in a traditional manner here in Malaysia in our Kechara Saraswati Arts Dept.
Her Crown, earrings are all removable.
I’ve had local Malaysians trained by experts in the art of painting the sacred faces with gold. Her jewellery was done by the same dept also.
This is what she looks like without any painting, brocade clothes, jewellery, or any adornments. Can be just left like so and still stunning.
Vajra Yogini is the perfect Yidam. I am so happy that my students and friends can produce such a nice image/statue of this extremely sacred Yidam.
Vajra Yogini is the most apt Yidam for the current karmic situation in existence according to many attained Masters. May we never be separated from Her until we ascend Her Kechara Paradise in the Westerly Direction.
Tsem Tulku
I will take a small photo print for my home altar. It is an awe-inspiring artwork, too.
I didn’t saw this post!!! Thank you soo much Rinpoche !
This shrine is so beautiful, it’s totally amazing !
I hope one day be abble to offer Vajrayogini a so beautiful shrine ! Thank you for sharing. <3
Vajrayogini(VY) is my absolute favourite. I dare say that I have not come across any VY staute that is more beautiful than this one. This is really my favourite. She looks ferocious but yet filled with so much compassion in her eyes. Most of all, she looks so life-like. You should really go to Kechara Loung in Kathmandu, Nepal and see her in person. She is truly the embodiment of Great Bliss. Rinpoche gave us an extensive talk on Vajrayogini and explained why HER practice is perfect for us. We are now living in what is referred to as “The Age of Degeneration”. Hence, we desperately need VY to tame our wild, vicious minds. The very insightful and important teaching can be found at http://blog.tsemtulku.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/2010/06/starting-on-vajra-yogini-now.html. I would strongly recommend and encourage everyone to read that blog post after this. Please do yourself a huge favour and read it. You’ll thank me after.
Vajrayogini is so very beautiful and majestic! Despite her ferocious appearance, looking at her image ignites a sense of joy and comfort. I believe that is because of the great and pure compassion she emits so powerfully that it shines through her wrathful appearance!
This relates to my understanding on the importance of motivation. In my first audience with Tsem Rinpoche, Rinpoche spoke about the importance of right motivation. With the right motivation, we will eventually find the best way. This lesson has acted as my basic guideline for the past year when making decision as well as reflecting on my actions.
The above is just one example of Tsem Rinpoche’s teachings which is like potent nectar of wisdom: they can be readily and easily applied in our daily lives as Rinpoche has so kindly adapted Dharma to the 21st century for the ease and benefit of his fortunate students.
I love my personal Vajrayogini statue – it is about 8 inches tall, made of oxidised copper and strategically plated with silver. I invited her home about 2 months after I met Rinpoche – I had visited Rinpoche’s ladrang and saw his personal Vajrayogini statue that was 17 inches tall, and was inspired to get my own image to make offerings to.
But as much as I love my little Vajrayogini image, this stunning 5-foot statue is the best Vajrayogini I have EVER seen. She looks so alive, almost as if she were going to step off the altar. Kechara Discovery and Kechara Saraswati Arts have done an amazing feat of bringing Vajrayogini to life congratulations to Paul and his team.
What’s almost as amazing as Vajrayogini in so beautiful a form, is the fact most of the work was done by our in-house people!! I love that!!! Rinpoche, with Paul from KD, created the statue and our artists at KSA painted it…without Rinpoche behind it all, we never would’ve come together under the Kechara umbrella, to accomplish such things.
And Paul as I’ve found out, is so driven and determined when he sets his mind to something, and he doesn’t shirk from hard work. Everything he produces gets better and better and better, because he’s opened himself up to Rinpoche to allow the blessings to enter, and he’s learnt to see criticism as construction, and learnt to accept help. No man’s an island right??? We all gotta learn to see things from a different perspective…only then are we not stuck in our ways, and can grow.
I am amazed by this Vajrayogini because she is life-size and looking very much alive. The detail on the face, her remarkably realistic body, the Tantric staff and her lotus are simply amazing. What’s amazing is that Rinpoche made all the pearl ornaments and silk vests and skirts in Kechara Saraswati Arts. They look tradition and are just so amazing to look at. What’s amazing because Vajrayogini doesn’t wear any jewellery but bone ornaments. So pearls are very apt offering onto her sacred body.
What’s amazing is Rinpoche’s altar is filled with altar with the butterlamps that are just literally covered in pearls. The pearls are woven like a skirt and placed on each butterlamp as an offering to Vajrayogini which is not traditional but a brilliant idea of Rinpoche. I remember one of Rinpoche’s student was painstakingly weaving strands of pearls to form this intricate skirt for each Butter lamp. I remember helping but it took a really long time to finish some of the smaller butter lamps.
Rinpoches Vajrayogini just keeps getting better and better. From the pictures above before She moved to new Ladrang she already was looking life like and I had the good fortune to make offerings nearly every day with KB (http://blog.tsemtulku.com/tsem-tulku-rinpoche/2010/06/kbs-wedding.html) and Monlam.
I just love the spotlight photography, she looks like she is in motion, whirling and turning, she is alive, life like. The larger the better. Big statues are nice, like the huge huge ones, but those that are life size like Her are just sooo real you have to look twice.
If you can see her now in New Ladrang, all energised from many many prayers, hang on… Oh did she just move… or is it my imagination playing tricks on me again??
This 5 feet Vajrayogini, Mother of Tantra, is very special and holy with so many daily offerings offered by Rinpoche on behalf of KWPC and Kechara Org.
To raise fund for KWPC, Rinpoche offered this Vajrayogini to be invited to the sponsor’s home, at a fund raising dinner in Kuala Lumpur a few years back.
A long time benefactor and student of Rinpoche together with two friends sponsored but instead of inviting Vajrayogini home they offered her back to Rinpoche!
What a show of generosity and selflessness these three gentlemen portrayed on that memorable night.
Their generosity is creating for a larger Vajrayogini image to be enshrined at KWPC.
Thank you, Gentlemen.
I love Vajra Yogini! I mean who does not right? Well, Thierry and I have been fortunate enough to be inviting a wonderful statue which we purchased from the old Kechara Paradise in SS2 recently (how auspicious as that is where the incredible journey of Kechara all started thanks to Rinpoche!). In fact, we are very excited to finally have an image of her in our home. Can’t wait!
It will be a truly auspicious day when she finally arives home. We also purchased a beautiful set of offering bowls carved out of Jade with Silver and inset with semi precious stones specially for her shrine which will be filled with many beautiful offerings daily to gain merits that may all that view her in our humble home be blessed by just gazing upon her countenance.
Dear Rinpoche, thank you for sharing with us the close-up picture of the Vajrayogini statue that is astonishingly beautiful. Like the other posts that has Vajrayogini pictures, I don’t think I would have the chance to see them if the pictures are not posted in the blog as those statues are placed inside Rinpoche’s room.
Thank you again for sharing with us the sacred pictures of Vajrayogini.
…in the WESTERLY direction?
A Thousand Thanks for sharing these images!
I am especially fond of the close-ups! I will print out some of these images for my own household altar until She decides to come to me in three dimensional statue form.
Sincerely, and with a heart as open as the sky,
Sonny Gardner
Beautiful… she looks so alive in the “Another angle” photo! Her eyes look like they could speak…