Description: Yidam Vajrakilaya. Tibet. Old thanka painting on canvas, 70 x 58 cm. In new white frame (73 x 61 cm). From German private collection. Blue Vajrakilaja standing in powerful sidestep on two Hindu deities. Three heads, six arms. Middle hands in namaskara mudra in front of the chest, right upper hand holding a vajra, left lower hand with tantric wand (skt. danda), remaining hands in the gesture of threat (skt. tarjana mudra). In yab-yum with his consort Diptacakra who is holding a kapala in her left hand. Pair of wings. Surrounded by eight further emanations of Vajrakilaya and his paredra. Signs of age