Symbolic Offerings | Rubin Museum Collection

Rubin Museum of Art

Art 27

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

Four-Armed Mahakala

Tibet, 18th century

Tibet, 17th century

Tibet, 19th century

Tibet, 20th century

Bhutan, possibly Punakha Dzong, Mid-19th century

Nepal, Dated by inscription, 1822

Vajrakilaya of the Eight Pronouncements

Tibet, 18th century

Tiger Riding Mahakala

Central Tibet, Early 19th century

Tara, as a Great Yogini, After a Set of Paintings “Twenty-seven Tantric Deities” designed by Situ Panchen (1700-1774)

Kham Region, Eastern Tibet, 19th century

Nepal, dated by inscription, 1694

Scenes from the Life of Jamyang Tutob Wangchuk (1588-1637)

Tibet, 17th century

Red Ganapati, One of the Three Great Red Deities

Tsang region, central Tibet, 16th century

Pelden Lhamo Dusolma “Smoke-Clad Goddess”

Tibet, 14th century

Pelden Lhamo Dusolma

Bhutan, 19th century

Padmasambhava with Lineage Teachers

Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 19th century