Art

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
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
Tangtong Gyelpo Protection Against Earthquake Yantra
Derge Printing House, Derge, Kham Region, Eastern Tibet, ca. 1979
Four-Armed Mahakala
Tibet, 18th 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
White Tara with Long Life Deities
Tibet, 19th century
White Tara
Central Tibet, 15th century
White Tara
Tibet, 18th century
White Manjushri
Tibet, 19th century
Vasudhara, Goddess of Abundance
Nepal, 17th century
Vasudhara
Nepal, 13th century
Ushnishavijaya
Tibet, 15th or 16th century
Ushnishavijaya
Tibet, 18th century
Thirteenth Karmapa, Dudul Dorje (1733-1797)
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 19th century
Thirteenth Karmapa, Dudul Dorje (1733-1797)
Pelpung Monastery, Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 18th century, ca. 1760s
Tara Protecting from the Eight Fears
Kham region, eastern Tibet, 19th century

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