Polychrome wooden statuette of Guru Dragpur, Tibet or Mongolia, 19th century A wrathful form of Padmasambhava, he is red in color, with a single face and three round eyes. His mouth is wide open, his fangs bare and his fiery hair sticking up. His raised right hand firmly holds a gold vajra scepter and his left a black scorpion, both arms outstretched at his sides. Adorned with a crown of five skulls, gold earrings, bracelets, necklaces and a garland of snakes, he wears a necklace of human heads. An elephant skin covers his shoulders and a tiger skin is wrapped around his waist. Legless, his lower body consists of a large black kila (Tibetan: phur ba), a three-edged stake extending downwards from the wide-open mouth of a Makara sea creature. Standing on a triangular base adorned with skulls, above a sun disk and lotus flower, it is surrounded by the swirling flames of immaculate consciousness. Height: 13.5 cm