Dorje Phagmo

Dorje Phagmo thangka painting is the depiction of tantric deity Dorje Phagmo, also known as "Vajra Mother." Dorje Phagmo is a tantric deity in Tibetan Buddhism considered a yidam, a meditational deity, which practitioners can visualize and connect with in order to achieve spiritual advancement and attain enlightenment.

Dorje Phagmo is typically depicted as a red or copper-colored woman, with one face and two arms, holding a vajra (a ritual object symbolizing indestructibility) and a bell in her right and left hands, respectively in traditional Tibetan thangka painting. She is shown standing on a prostrate figure, symbolizing her subjugation of the forces of evil in thangka paintings of Dorje Phagmo. She is also portrayed wearing a crown of five skulls, symbolizing the transformation of negative emotions into wisdom. She is a powerful and fierce deity, associated with the attainment of the highest tantra, the Anuttarayoga Tantra. Dorje Phagmo practice is said to be highly secret and only initiated into those deemed ready by their teachers