Symbolic Offerings | Rubin Museum Collection

Rubin Museum of Art

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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

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 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

Yama Dharmaraja

Mongolia, 19th century

Tibet, 20th century

Mongolia, ca. 19th century

Vajrabhairava with Consort Vajravetali

Mongolia, 18th - 19th century

Vajradhara and the Great Adepts (Mahasiddhas)

Kham region, eastern Tibet, late 18th-early 19th century

Vajradhara with consort

Tibet, 14th century

Vajrakilaya of the Eight Pronouncements

Tibet, 18th century

Nepal, Dated by inscription, 1822

Bhutan, possibly Punakha Dzong, Mid-19th century

Tibet, 19th century

Tibet, 17th century

Tibet, 17th century