Thangka depicting Vajrayogini, Tibet, 18th-19th century In tempera on canvas, the deity is shown standing in red, with a single face and two hands, holding a curved katrika knife in her right hand and a raised kapala cranial cup in her left. A katvanga staff rests on her left shoulder. Adorned with a diadem of skulls and gold ornaments, jewels and bones, she wears a necklace of fifty dry skulls. She stands with both feet on the bodies of Kalaratri, white, and Bhairava, black. Above, a sun disk and a pedestal of multicolored lotus petals. Completely surrounded by a mandorla of the flames of pure consciousness, she looks up into the pure realm of Khechara and drinks from the cup in her left hand. She is surrounded by twelve various deities, Lamas, citipati and other bodhisattvas. 60 x 42.5 cm Slightly cut, wear.