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The Samantabhadra Yab Yum Buddhist Altar Statue: Embodiment of Boundless Wisdom
This Samantabhadra Yab Yum Buddhist Altar Statue stands 12.60 inches (32 cm) high upon a 9.65-inch (24.5 cm) base and weighs 4.85 kg. Formed from a substantial copper body, the sculpture is enriched with radiant 24K gold gilding and carefully applied acrylic painting. The golden surface emphasizes the smooth contours of the intertwined figures, while painted details distinguish their peaceful faces, hair, and selected features. The broad ornamental pedestal creates a stable foundation for the intimate composition and gives the sculpture a balanced presence. Its meaningful symbolism and substantial proportions make it suitable for a Nyingma or Dzogchen altar, meditation room, shrine space, or collection of Himalayan Buddhist sculpture.
Samantabhadra, the primordial Buddha, is depicted seated in the vajra posture while embracing his consort, Samantabhadri. She sits upon his lap and returns the embrace, forming the traditional yab-yum or “father-mother” composition. Their union is not presented as ordinary desire; it symbolizes the inseparability of compassionate method and wisdom. More specifically, Samantabhadra represents pure awareness, while Samantabhadri embodies emptiness—the open nature of all phenomena. Their unclothed forms signify primordial purity, free from conceptual coverings, attachment, and artificial distinctions. Neither figure carries ritual implements because their complete union itself communicates the awakened state. Seated together upon a lotus pedestal, they represent the Dharmakaya, the ultimate truth body of enlightenment, in which awareness and emptiness have never been separate. The composition serves as a profound reminder that awakening is realized through recognizing this indivisible nature of mind.
Size: 12.60”/32cm (Height) x 9.65”/24.5cm (Base)
Weight: 4.85 kg
Material: 24K Gold Gilded , Acrylic Painting , Copper Body
Samantabhadra, meaning "Universal Good" or "All-Good," is considered the primordial Buddha, representing the Dharmakaya, the ultimate truth body of the Buddha. He is often depicted naked and blue, symbolizing the unadorned, all-pervasive nature of primordial purity and emptiness. In Yab Yum union, he and his consort Samantabhadri embody the absolute, non-dual essence of enlightenment, the source from which all phenomena arise.