Guru Dragpo Thanka

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Guru Dragpo: One of the Wrathful form of Padmasambhava

Guru Drakpo, Yab-Yum (English: the Wrathful Teacher, Father-Mother): fearsome form of Guru Rinpoche Padmasambhava according to the Revealed Treasure Tradition of the Nyingma School. Dark maroon in colour, with one face and two hands, he holds upraised in the right a gold vajra and the left extended to the side a kila (Tibetan: phur ba) dagger. Adorned with skull and bone ornaments, a necklace of freshly severed heads, human and elephant skins; the lower body is wrapped with a tiger skin skirt. Embracing the Father is the Mother consort, dark blue, holding a skullcup in the left hand. The left leg wraps around the waist of the Father. They stand atop a sun disc surrounded by the wildly burning orange flames of pristine awareness.

Guru Dragpo, originating in the ‘Revealed Treasure’ Tradition of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism, is a wrathful meditational form of Padmasambhava. Although technically a guruyoga practice the function of Guru Dragpo is that of an ishtadevata (meditational deity). In the Nyingma Tradition, following after the early meditational deities of the Guhyagarbha Tantra and Eight Heruka this practice of Guru Dragpo is possibly the most popular and the most represented in art. In the 16th century the teacher Pema Karpo popularized a variation on Guru Dragpo called Guru Dragpur – principally practiced in the Drugpa Kagyu School.

Size without Brocade: 20 inches by 30 inches