Art

Embroidered white and black animals, two black ravens, and human figures populate a light blue background. Skulls and beaded strings decorate the upper edge, with black animals in the lower portion. A dark, blue-skinned figure sits at center, one of three human figures. There are seven animals, including a white Bactrian camel and a black snow lion devouring a corpse. All represent symbolic offerings.
Symbolic Offerings
Mongolia, 19th century
Two richly dressed, bearded figures in armor face each other, both surrounded by swirling cloud motifs, against a backdrop of green hills, trees, and a body of water. Two smaller figures of attendants are placed at lower left and right, and a dish piled high with offerings sits between the two central figures.
Vaishravana and Virupaksha, Guardian Kings of the Northern and Western Directions
Tibet, 19th century
A detailed painting showing multiple deities, with a central seated figure and consort above and a fierce multi-armed deity and consort dancing within a ring of flames below. Other smaller deities in various poses are arranged around the three largest deities. A landscape with small human and nonhuman figures appears at the bottom.
Ratnasambhava, Ratna Heruka, and Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Bardo
Tibet, 18th century
Lords of the Three Families: Manjushri, Avalokiteshvara, and Vajrapani
Derge Printing House, Derge, Kham Region, Eastern Tibet, 20th century
The Abbot, the Master, and the Dharma King: Shantarakshita, Padmasambhava, Tri Songdetsen (742-796) and the Nyingma Tradition
Derge Printing House, Derge, Kham Region, Eastern Tibet, ca. 1979
White Tara and Consort
Derge Printing House, Derge, Kham Region, Eastern Tibet, 2000
Vajradhara with consort
Tibet, 14th century
Three Tantric Goddesses
Nepal, 18th century
Hevajra with consort Nairatmya
Central Tibet, mid-15th-16th century
Hevajra with Consort Nairatmya
Tibet or Nepal, 14th or 16th - 17th century
Hevajra with consort Nairatmya
Tibet or China, 19th century
Hevajra and Nairatmya
Eastern India, ca. 12th century
Guhyasamaja with Consort
Tibet, 15th century
Guhyasamaja Akshobhyavajra
Central Tibet, early 17th century (ca. 1604)
Guhyasamaja Akshobhvajra with Consort
Tibet, 15th century
Chakrasamvara with Consort Vajravarahi
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 19th century
Chakrasamvara with Consort
Tibet, 15th century
Chakrasamvara in Union with Consort Vajravarahi
Central Tibet, 14th century
Chakrasamvara and the Footprints of Drigungpa Jikten Sumgon (1143–1217)
Tibet, prior to 1217
Chakrasamvara with consort Vajrayogini
Mongolia, 19th century
Akshobhyavajra Ghuyasamaja
Tibet, 17th century or later

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