Artwork Details

Title
Orgyen Dorje Chang, One of the Eight Manifestations of Padmasambhava
Dimensions
43 1/2 × 29 3/4 in. (Estimated)
Medium
Pigments on cloth
Origin
Eastern Tibet
Classification(s)
paintings
Date
19th century
Credit Line
Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, Gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin
Object number
C2006.66.284
HAR Number
656
Published references
* Five Movements Towards a Fugue on the Subject of Kalimpong. ed. Camilla Palestra (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016) Pp. 42.* Glenn H. Mullin. Buddha in Paradise: A Celebration in Himalayan Art. (New York: Rubin Museum of Art, 2007). Fig. 39; Pp. 88-89.* Stump, Colin. Wisdom of the Mountains: Buddhism of Tibet and the Himalaya. Paramita Publications, 2017. Pp.224-225.* Czaja, Olaf. Reflections of the Divine: Treasures of Tibetan Painting: The Ulrich Worz Collection. Weimar: VDG, 2018. pp. 151.Rights and Reproductions:Permission for use of digital image by Shezad Dawood in their new publication, Kalimpong -- Rights and Reproductions form (07/13/2016) AttachedFilm:* Tibet’s Sacred Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism: An interview with Ian Baker, curator of the exhibition, Tibet’s Sacred Temple: Body, Mind and Meditation in Tantric Buddhism on view at the Wellcome Collection, London, 19 Nov 2015 – 28 Feb 2016. BIAPAL: Fall 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bFpoNj-Xgg

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