This is an exceptionally dynamic depiction of the esoteric Buddhist goddess Vajravarahi (Adamantine Sow), the embodiment of transcendent wisdom. Highly venerated in her own right, Vajravarahi is also the consort of Chakrasamvara, the personification of transcendent compassion. In her aspect depicted here, in a dancing posture, she is the supreme dakini, a group of female divinities who represent the generative power and innate presence of the Buddha that is found in all sentient beings. Her dance of enlightenment overcomes and dispels delusion, which is symbolized by the small head of a female pig that projects above her right ear (visible from the rear). Her flying scarf conveys the exuberance of her dance and lends an energetic sense of movement to the sculpture. The goddess holds a chopper in her raised right hand and a skull cup in her left, which she uses respectively to cut through the fog of ignorance and to hold the blood symbolic of wisdom's triumph over delusion. This image may have once adorned a temple at the famed Densatil Monastery complex in central Tibet, which was destroyed during the Chinese Cultural Revolution between 1966 and 1976.

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