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28. SET OF VAJRA AND GHANTA Copper and mercury gilt copper alloy Tibeto-Chinese Ming, ca. mid-15th century Length (vajra): 17.8 cm (7 in.), height (bell): 23 cm (9.05 in.) The vajra (Tib. rDo rje) and ghanta (Tib. dril bu) are the essential implements of Tantric Buddhism. When a vajra is used in conjunction with a bell (of which the handle is a half-vajra) the pair symbolizes duality: the vajra representing the active principle, the means of attaining enlightenment (thus the actual Buddha manifestation), while the ghanta symbolizes the Perfection of Wisdom, known as the Void (Skt. shunyata).1 For Buddhists the active principle is male, while wisdom is regarded as feminine.2 On depictions of Vajrayana deities displaying these implements, the vajra is usually held in the right hand and the ghanta in the left. This matching set of a vajra with its corresponding ghanta is a good example of Tibeto-Chinese ritual objects that display the style of the early 15th century, but were probably produced a few decades later. There is considerable wear to most areas of the gilding resulting from long and intensive use. The iconography of the five-pointed vajra corresponds to that seen on early Ming examples and the basic structure of the ghanta can be compared to other bells of that same period.3 The body of this ghanta displays a more schematic decoration such as Dharma Wheels, the symbols of Buddha Vairochana. The handle shows the face of this deity, which resides in the central position of the Tathagata mandala, shown wearing an eight-leaf diadem-shaped crown. NOTES: 1. On the symbolism of vajra and ghanta as complementary ritual objects see Huntington/Bangdel 2003, p.220, no.58 and Snellgrove 1987, pp.131. 2. Huntington/Bangdel, op. cit., p.220. 3. For early Ming examples of bells with a cast reign mark inside the body see Thurman/Weldon 1999, pp.32, no.11; Bigler 2013, p.107, no.42, pp.109, no.43. 94.

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