Article Title：Vajray(a)over-barna art and iconography
Abstract：
Iconographic imagery in the Indo-Tibetan Buddhist. Tantric (i.e., Vajrayana) tradition is replete with polymorphic symbolic forms. Tantric texts themselves are multivalent, addressing astronomy, astrology, cosmology, history embryology, physiology, pharmacology, alchemy, botany, philosophy, and sexuality. The Sri Kalacakra, a medieval Indo-Tibetan manuscript of great import, describes ritual visualization sequences in which practitioners visualize elaborate mandala designs and deified yab-yum (father-mother) consort couples. The Kalacakra system is the preeminent conduit for the globalization of Tibetan Buddhism, and contemporary enactments of its initiation ceremony incorporate a variety of aesthetic genres, including sand mandala construction and ritual dance.
Keywords: homology; Madhyamika; mandala; Tantra; Vajray(a)over-barna; yab-yum; melothesia
DOI: 10.1111/0591-2385.00281
Source：ZYGON
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