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Wrathful Cakrasamvara Who Burns on Contact, from the Sakya tradition


The Wrathful Cakrasamvara Who Burns on Contact, of the Sakya tradition, is black in colour, with one face and two hands. His right hand holds an eight‑spoked wheel of fire on a vajra, and his left hand holds a four‑spoked wheel of wind on the tip of a trident. His body is short and thick, with all the wrathful attributes complete. He has the eight-charnel ground attire (- 1) head ornament human skulls 2. a rosary of human heads carved in crystal. 3. an elephant skin as an upper garment. 4. the skin of a human being who has committed heinous non-virtues as his skin. 5. his forehead bears three greased lines horizontally and vertically. 6. a tiger skin as his lower garment. 7. blood drop (tilaka) between his eyes. 8. body is covered with ashes., and his head is adorned with a wheel and a crossed vajra. He stands with his right leg extended, pressing Kālarātri, and his left leg bent, pressing down on Bhairava. The consort (female deity-mother) holds a curved knife in her right hand and a trident in her left hand, embracing the (male deity-father). Both father and mother deity stand in the midst of an expanse of blazing fire.