Atisha with Twenty-Eight Great Adepts

Rubin Museum of Art

Artwork Details

Title: Atisha with Twenty-Eight Great Adepts

Dimensions: 43 3/8 x 23 7/8 x 3/8 in. (110.2 x 60.6 x 1 cm)

Medium: Ground mineral pigment on cotton

Origin: Tibet

Classification(s): scroll painting paintings

Date: 18th century

Credit Line: Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, Gift of Shelley and Donald Rubin

Object number: C2006.66.505

Currently On View: At the Brooklyn Museum, “Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room”

HAR Number: 973

Published references

Rob Linrothe, Holy Madness: Portraits of Tantric Siddhas. (New York: Rubin Museum of Art; Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2006). Catalog No.19; Pp. 225, 228, 229, 231-232, 263, 268, 317.
Glenn H. Mullin, The Flying Mystics of Tibetan Buddhism. (New York: Rubin Museum of Art; Chicago: Serindia Publications, 2006). Plate 15; Pp. 116-121.

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Tibetan Regions

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Today, Tibetans primarily inhabit the Tibetan Plateau, situated between the Himalayan mountain range and the Indian subcontinent to the west, Chinese cultural regions to the east, and Mongolian cultural regions to the northeast. During the 7th to 9th century, Tibetan rulers expanded their empire across Central Asia, and established Buddhism as the state religion.

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