Tsongkapa (1357-1419)
Tibet, 18th century
Atisha with Twenty-Eight Great Adepts
Tibet, 18th century
Kurukulla
Tibet, 19th century
Vajradhara with Twenty-Five Mahasiddhas
Tibet, 18th century
Painting of large seated figure with colorful robes surrounded by smaller figures above and below mounted on vertical strip of golden patterned fabric.
Treasure Revealer Terdak Lingpa (1646–1714)
Mindroling monastery, Tsang Province, Central Tibet, early 18th century
Yaksha General Anila
China, First half of the 15th 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
Vajrabhairava Mandala
Ngor Ewam Choden Monastery, Tsang Province, Central Tibet, ca. 1515-1535
Vajrabhairava with Consort Vajravetali
Central Tibet, late 18th century
Vajradhara and the Great Adepts (Mahasiddhas)
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, late 18th-early 19th century
Vajradhara with Eighty-Five Great Adepts (Mahasiddhas)
Western Tibet, 15th century
Vajrapani (From Situ's set of Eight Great Bodhisattvas)
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 19th century
Vajrasattva
Tibet, 19th century
Vajravarahi
Nepal, Dated by inscription, 1822
Vajrayogini
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 18th century
Wheel of Life, attributed to Lhadripa Rinzing Chungyalpa (b.1912, Sikkim - d.1977)
Sikkim, c. 1930

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