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
White Tara and Consort
Derge Printing House, Derge, Kham Region, Eastern Tibet, 2000
Four-Armed Mahakala
Tibet, 18th century
Vajradhara
Tibet, 18th century
White Chakrasamvara, From Situ’s set of Twenty-seven Tutelary Deities
Kham Region, Eastern Tibet, late 18th century
Vajradhara with Eighty-Five Great Adepts (Mahasiddhas)
Western Tibet, 15th century
Vajradhara with consort
Tibet, 14th century
Vajradhara and the Great Adepts (Mahasiddhas)
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, late 18th-early 19th century
Vajradhara
Tibet, 18th century
Vajradhara
Central Tibet, 15th - 16th century
Third Karmapa, Rangjung Dorje (1284-1339)
Kham Region, Eastern Tibet, 19th century
Ratna Vajradhara
Tibet, 18th century
Manjuvajra
India, 12th century
Manjuvajra
India, 11th century
Guhyasamaja Manjuvajra
Kashmir or Himachal Pradesh, India, 11th century

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