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Stepping to the right, regally crowned and lying over a bed of snakes; [23] in Achala-Vajrapani form he is shown with four heads, four arms and four legs adorned with symbols of vajra, sword, lasso and skull cup and trampling over demons; [23] Mahachakra-Vajrapani is a form with three heads and a third eye, and with six arms and two legs.
English: Bodhisattva Vajrapani, Philadelphia Museum of Art. Description from the museum reads: "Bodhisattva Vajrapani. Late 1100s - early 1200s. Tibet. Copper alloy with silver and gold inlay and traces of pigment decoration. Purchased with the Stella Kramrisch Fund, 1997-4-1."
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The Greco-Buddhist art or Gandhara art is the artistic manifestation of Greco-Buddhism, a cultural syncretism between Ancient Greek art and Buddhism. It had mainly evolved in the ancient region of Gandhara , located in the northwestern fringe of the Indian subcontinent .
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Vajrapani has many forms in Tibetan mythology with the main ones being the Dharmapala or the Vajrapani-Acharya the deity is depicted in human form to possess a single head and a third eye and is wearing a necklace made out of snakes. Nilambara-Vajrapani is depicted as having either four or six hands and as having a head and a third eye wearing ...
Tapa Shortor had some beautiful statuary in Hellenistic style, particularly one seated Buddha attended by Herakles-Vajrapani and a Tyche-like woman holding a cornucopia, now destroyed (Niche V2). [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Another has an attendant reminding the portrait of Alexander the Great .