Sweet sixteen

 

Kurukulla is a Tibetan Buddhist goddess who combines the traits of two rather different Hindu goddesses: Lalita Tripura Sundari and Kali. A link to a slightly apologetic article below. Some quotes follow...

>>>More than any other figure in the Buddhist pantheon, Kurukulla becomes the Buddhist goddess of love and sex, corresponding to the Western gooddesses Aphrodite and Venus. She is depicted as a voluptuous and seductive nude sixteen year old girl. Among the attributes she holds in her four hands, four arms being her most common manifestation, are the flower-entwined bow and arrow, reminiscent of the Western Eros and Cupid, although as the goddess of witchcraft, she is more akin to Diana.

>>>It may appear strange and ironic to us that Buddhism, originally the religion of celibate monks, should give birth to this attractive and seductive sex goddess.

>>>According to the texts, Kurukulla is sixteen years old because sixteen is the ideal number that signifies perfection, four times four. Her face is beautiful and her body voluptuous and alluring, as well as being red in color, because of her magical function of enchantment and magnetism.

>>>She wears a necklace of fifty freshly severed human heads dripping blood because she vanquishes the fifty negative emotions. She is dancing because she is active and energetic, her compassionate activity manifesting in both Samsara and Nirvana. She dances, treading upon a male human corpse because she enchants and subjugates the demon of ego. 

>>>She displays her fangs; she has three eyes and round breasts, being like a maiden sixteen years of age. Her tawny hair streams upward. She is adorned with five dried skulls (as her tiara), she has a long necklace of fifty freshly severed heads. She is adorned with ornaments of human bone and has a tiger skin across her thighs. She stands in ardhaparyanka dance position, with her left leg extended, upon a human corpse whose face shows to her left, amidst red rays of light and blazing masses of fire. 

Kurukulla: The dakini of magic and enchantments