The two faces of Vajrapani. From: ROM Magazine | Date: March 22, 2008| Author: | COPYRIGHT 2008 Royal Ontario Museum Governors. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Could a scruffy ruffian and a princely figure represent one and the same Buddhist being? Our intrepid researcher cracks the case

My first face-to-face encounter with the gloriously elegant painted figure was in the Buddhist caves at Ajanta in the Indian state of Maharashtra in 1988. The sumptuous princely figure is a bodhisattva--a lordly being in the Buddhist pantheon who embodies wisdom and compassion. The bodhisattva's aim: to ensure that all living beings attain enlightenment. This particular one, since adorning the cover of South Asian art historian Susan Huntington's ...

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