A Chinese Sino-Tibetan Qing Dynasty Gilt Bronze Buddha Figure of Begtse Chen, (English: the Great Coat of Mail. Sanskrit name: Prana Atma), the main protector for the Hayagriva cycle of practice.
With one face and two hands, in the appearance of a red 'tsen' daemon, dressed like a Tibetan warrior, he is covered in protective armor. In the raised right hand he holds a sword with a Vajra shaped handle. The left hand clutches to the breast a fresh heart with a bow and arrow held in the bend of the elbow and a long lance and banner leaning against the shoulder. Aside from the armor, he wears all the usual wrathful vestments such as the crown of five skulls, a necklace of fifty freshly severed heads, and the like. Standing atop a sun disc with the right foot on the corpse of a horse and the left on the corpse of a man he is completely surrounded by the flames of pristine awareness. Extensive trace of gilt and red pigment on the hair. Extensive trace of gilt and red pigment on the hair. The underside of the statue shows a rectangular cut-out, a precisely fitting bronze comes with the sculpture. The base with incised Quatre-foil flori-form petals visvavajra mark surrounded the centralized DaiJi.

Dimensions: 7" H

Excellent condition, with normal anomalies in nature, sign of stressed surface, minor scratch & dent. Surface traced wear and or declined to gilding. Normal, considering ages and wears.
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