Legendary and Historical Humans | Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art

Rubin Museum of Art

Art 156

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

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

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

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 Namgyal (1594–1651) with a Brief Lineage

Bhutan, 19th century

Virupaksha, Guardian King of the West

China, 17th - 18th century

Tsangnyon Heruka (1452-1507)

Tsang or Ngari Province, Tibet, 16th-17th century

Tsongkhapa (1357-1419)

Tibet, 16th century

Tsongkhapa (1357-1419)

Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 19th century

Tsongkhapa (1357-1419)

U Province, Central Tibet, 19th century

Tsongkhapa (1357-1419)

Nepal or India, 20th century

Two Arhats, Pantaka and Gopaka

Tibet, 17th century

Two Indian and Four Tibetan Masters

Tibet, early 13th century

Unidentified Arhat

China, 17th century

Unidentified Lama (Teacher)

Tibet, 18th century