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'''Chakrasamvara''' (Skt. ''Cakrasaṃvara''; Tib. ''Khorlo Demchok''; [[Wyl.]] ''‘khor lo bde mchog'') — a wrathful deity, mainly practised within the [[Sarma]] schools, who is usually depicted as blue in colour, with four faces and twelve arms, and in union with his consort [[Vajravarahi]].
'''Chakrasamvara''' (Skt. ''Cakrasaṃvara''; Tib. [[འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག་]], ''Khorlo Demchok'', [[Wyl.]] ''‘khor lo bde mchog'') — a wrathful deity who is usually depicted as blue in colour, with four faces and twelve arms, and in union with his consort [[Vajravarahi]]. Chakrasamvara is one of the main [[yidam]]s of the [[Highest Yoga Tantra]] of the [[Sarma]] schools, and especially of its mother tantras.


==Further Reading==
==Internal Links==
*Lama Kazi Dawa Samdrup, ''Śri Cakrasaṃvara Tantra'', Adyita Prakashan, New Dehli, 1987.
*[[Chakrasamvara Tantra]]
 
==External Links==
*[http://www.himalayanart.org/pages/chakrasamvara/index.html Chakrasamvara outline at Himalayan Art]


[[Category:Buddhas and Deities]]
[[Category:Buddhas and Deities]]

Latest revision as of 09:23, 10 December 2019

Chakrasamvara (Skt. Cakrasaṃvara; Tib. འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག་, Khorlo Demchok, Wyl. ‘khor lo bde mchog) — a wrathful deity who is usually depicted as blue in colour, with four faces and twelve arms, and in union with his consort Vajravarahi. Chakrasamvara is one of the main yidams of the Highest Yoga Tantra of the Sarma schools, and especially of its mother tantras.

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