Artwork from the Tibetan Tantric tradition
the deity Hevajra, seen dancing with his consort Nairatmya at the center of a fifteenth-century mandala
A monk versed in tantric Buddhist practice would use this mandala to visualize or self-identify.
Central to this practice is the concept of dualism, echoed here in the deity’s name, which fuses the male he (compassion) with the female vajra (wisdom, or shunyata).












