Samantabhadra Yabyum

Samantabhadra Yabyum; Samanatabhadra (Tibetan: kun tu zang po) imbosom his consort, also called: Dharmakaya Samantabhadra.

The primordial Buddha of the Nyingma School. Samantabhadra is renowned as the "first buddha,"(Adi-buddha) since he is the primordial perfection of all enlightened qualities, and is the ruler, or guru, of all buddhas. Samantabhadra is the originally [[pure state of supreme emptiness]]-the ground of being for all beings and all buddhas-in the form of a deity with face and hands. He is the symbol for

the fact that mind is imbued with the seed of buddhahood. Samantabhadra is known as the Primordial Buddha and represents the [[embodiment of the

wisdom of essential sameness]] or insight into the unity of sameness and difference. Yab-yum is Tibetan for "father and mother" and a term for masculine and feminine deities in sexual union. This is an image frequently seen in Tibetan art.

Samantabhadra Yabyum expresses the unity of the masculine principle of compassion and the female principle of wisdom. This Yab-yum serves primarily as an aid to concentration in fusing the masculine and feminine energies within the practitioner himself/herself in his/her practice.