18TH-19TH CENTURY

Chakrasamvara is the primary meditation deity of the various Kagyu Schools of Tibetan Buddhism, and together with Guhyasamāja and Yanmāntaka, form the three most important deities of the Gelug School. Compare to a stylistically similar gilt-bronze figure of Kalachakra displayed at the Yonghegong, Beijing, illustrated in Palace of Harmony, Hong Kong, 1994, p127 (fig.1).