Six-armed brave protection statue

[The protective statue of the six-armed warrior]

The protective statue of the six-armed warrior, Qing Dynasty, is 73 cm long and 48.5 cm horizontal. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The six-armed protection method, namely, the six-armed Big Black Sky, is the head of the Tibetan Secret Dharmapala. This figure has a black and blue body, three eyes open in anger, a large blood mouth, sharp fangs exposed, five skull crowns on the head, and yellow hair rushing up. In front of his chest, he used to hold an ax knife and a skull bowl, and the other four hands, with a human bone arm bracelet and a skull drum on the right, and a trident and rope on the left. There is a head vine hanging on the chest with blood dripping. Stand in a lunge with two legs and step on the white elephant head. In the middle of the sky is the main revered god Vajrasattva, the right side of Vajrasattva is the Dharma Protector of Yidi, the left side is the Dharma Protector of Honorable Family, the five Dharma Protectors around are his attendant gods, the lower middle is the Great Black Xiongwei Dharma Protector riding a black horse, the right side is the Dharma Protector riding a black bear, and the left side is the auspicious Mother of Heaven riding a yellow mule. Big black sky was regarded as the god of war and blessing in ancient India, and was honored as the god of dharma protection when it was introduced into Tibet. It has a variety of shapes. Big black sky with six arms was its popular image in the Qing Dynasty
After the portrait, there are four characters of Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan. The Chinese characters are: “On the first day of May, the forty-fourth year of Qianlong’s reign, the emperor ordered Zhang Jiahu Tuketu to recognize the six-arm protection law of the portrait of sacrificing interests.”