A gold gilded bronze figure of Mahakala

Mahakala or the Tibetan Lord of Time: he who ultimately absorbs all things back into original essence. This bronze silver and gold gild Sino-Tibetan statue is a magnificent rendering of this deity. Here he is fierce, active and in constant movement surrounded by flames of illuminating awareness. The deity wears a crown of five skulls. Present on every form of Mahakala, these skulls represent the transmutation of the five negatives afflictions of human nature into positive virtues. Thus, ignorance transforms into the wisdom of reality; pride becomes the wisdom of equanimity; attachment becomes the wisdom of discernment; jealousy becomes the wisdom of accomplishment and anger transforms into mirror like wisdom.