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Painting of a crowned figure seated on a tiger skin holding an arrow, with a quiver beside him, under a flowering tree against a deep blue background with mountains and floating arrows below.

Mahasiddha Saraha

Tibet, 19th century

Thangka painting of a seated monk with a golden halo unwrapping a text, accompanied by two attendant figures, in a green landscape with stylized rocks, trees, and a small deity seated in clouds above.

Arhat Gopaka, From a Set of Sixteen Arhats

China, 19th century

Thangka painting showing four seated Buddhist arhats in orange and red robes amid a green landscape, with a small figure at bottom center and three smaller deities seated on clouds in the upper right.

Four Arhats: Bhadra, Vajriputra, Kanaka Bharadvaja, and Kanakavatsa

Tibet, 17th–18th century

Thangka painting of a standing multi-armed deity with a crown and orange aureole, poised on a lotus base, surrounded by six smaller seated deities in framed roundels and a green landscape background.

Nepal, 19th century

Thangka painting of a red-robed lama seated on an ornate throne, with a small multi-armed dancing deity above in a red aureole, flanked by seated figures on clouds, an altar table below, and additional seated figures at the bottom of the composition.

Chogyel Pakpa Lodro Gyeltsen (1235–1280)

Tibet, 18th century

A female figure stands at center, richly dressed, with flowing hair and the word “security” inscribed across their chest in English. Concentric blue and brown circles surround the figure’s head and body respectively, against a geometric patterned background. A row of "junk" food items appears at lower left. At lower right, a group of small fleshy figures surrounded by clouds struggle to keep up on a treadmill.

Dedicated to Women Migrants: Security II

Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2023