Chakrasamvara’s Family Tree

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Family

• Vajrayogini(spouse)— Consort

  Chakrasamvara clasps Vajrayogini in the eternal yab-yum embrace atop Mount Kailash, the deep blue heruka and his red-skinned consort dancing in union as the living mandala of bliss and emptiness at the heart of the Anuttarayoga Tantras.

Rules over

• Kailash

  Chakrasamvara presides over Mount Kailash as his sacred mandala, having wrested the mountain from Mahadeva (Shiva) to establish it as the supreme site of tantric power in the Buddhist cosmology.

Equivalent to

• Chakrasamvara(Buddhist)

  Chakrasamvara was transmitted directly from Indian Vajrayana into Tibetan Buddhism, where his practice became central to the Kagyu and Sakya lineages as the supreme heruka deity of the mother tantra class.