Kalachakra has four heads, with three eyes in each head. He is blue in color, with his main face blue and his other faces red, yellow and white. His hair is tied up in a double knot. He has twenty-four arms and each hand holds a different symbol. His two main arms are crossed around the waist of his consort. Of his twenty-four arms, eight are blue, eight are white, and the other eight are red.
He is wearing a tiger skin skirt and underneath his outstretched right leg is a red Kamadeva (desire-realm god) with one face and four arms. Under his bent left leg is a white deity, White Rudra, with four arms. Red Gama, the consort of Kamadeva is holding Vishvatma's outstretched heel, and Uma, the consort of White Rudra, is holding Vishvatma's bent heel.
Vishvatma is shown golden-orange in color, with four heads, each having three eyes. She has eight arms with each hand holding a symbol.
Yab-Yum literally 'father-mother' are pairs of male and female deities depicted in physical union. These paired figures express a fundamental concept of Buddhism, the essential process of joining insight with compassion, also referred to as the union of wisdom and skilful means of action. The male figure, who embodies compassion, embraces the female, who represents transcendent wisdom. The development and marriage of wisdom and compassion are necessary for transcending the self-concerns that hinder progress towards understanding the ultimate nature of reality. The yab-yum image is linked to fundamental aspects of the unconscious, serving to identify and sublimate conscious and unconscious instincts into a potent visual metaphor.
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