Painting with large central figure seated on lotus blossom surrounded by temple above and people and elephants below.
Tonpa Shenrab with Episodes from His Life
Amdo Region, Eastern Tibet, 18th - 19th century
Painting of large seated robed figure surrounded by smaller figures, some seated and some standing.
Physician Yutok Yonten Gonpo (1126-1202)
Central Tibet, late 17th century
Horizontal painting with five seated figures in a circle with three horizontal rows of figures on either side
Bon Protector Deities of Funerary Rituals
Gyelrong, Amdo Region, Eastern Tibet, 18th century
Painting of seated figure with red and saffrom robes surrounded nby smaller figures and buildings mounted on vertical strip of patterned blue fabric.
Fifth Dalai Lama (1617–1682) with Episodes from His Life
U region, central Tibet, 18th century
Wrathful Offerings
Tibet, 19th century
Wrathful Offerings
Mongolia, 19th century
Yaksha General Anila
China, First half of the 15th century
Yama Dharmaraja
Mongolia, 19th century
Yama Dharmaraja with Consort Yami
Tibet, 18th century
Yungton Dorje Pel (1284 1365) (After Choying Gyatso’s (active ca.1640s-1660s) set of previous incarnations of the Panchen Lamas)
Central Tibet, 19th century
Zhabdrung Ngawang Namgyel (1594–1651) with a Brief Lineage
Bhutan, 19th century
Mandala of Vajrabhairava
Ngor Ewam Choden Monastery, Tsang region, central Tibet, ca. 1515-1535
Vajrabhairava with Consort Vajravetali
Central Tibet, late 18th century
Vajradhara
Tibet, 18th century
Vajradhara and the Great Adepts (Mahasiddhas)
Kham region, eastern Tibet, late 18th-early 19th century
Vajradhara with Eighty-Five Great Adepts (Mahasiddhas)
Western Tibet, 15th century

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