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Touching The Earth

Prayer (Reverence)

Do Not Fear (Protection)

Granting Wishes And Blessings

Archer’s/Hunter’s Stance

Thighbone Trumpet

Three-Bladed Dagger

Seven Offerings

Two richly dressed figures stand side-by-side, facing frontally, against a dark background. Smaller seated figures of monks in circular motifs appear at the upper and lower portions of the painting.

Bodhisattvas Samantabhadra and Vajrapani

Central Asia, 16th century

A large, open-mouthed, blue figure wearing a large black cloak sits at center, surrounded by a ring of flames. Burning figures populate the lower register, some trampling humans. More figures sit among clouds in the sky depicted at the upper regist

“Cloud Faced” Black Cloak Mahakala

Tibet, 16th-17th 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

Thangka mandala painting centered on a red female deity within a temple structure, surrounded by concentric protective rings, with seated teachers above and small deity figures in the corners.

Vajrayogini in the Pure Realm of Khechara

Kham region, eastern Tibet, 19th century

Thangka painting of a standing multi-armed deity with a crown and orange aureole, poised on a lotus base, surrounded by six smaller seated deities in framed roundels and a green landscape background.

Amoghapasha

Nepal, 19th century

A female figure stands at center, richly dressed, with flowing hair and the word “security” inscribed across their chest in English. Concentric blue and brown circles surround the figure’s head and body respectively, against a geometric patterned background. A row of "junk" food items appears at lower left. At lower right, a group of small fleshy figures surrounded by clouds struggle to keep up on a treadmill.

Dedicated to Women Migrants: Security II

Uuriintuya Dagvasambuu, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, 2023

Contemporary painting reimagining a wrathful Hindu goddess in flat graphic style, with a turquoise three-eyed face, red skull crown, blue skin, and stylized weapons, rendered in bold outlines against a slate-blue background.

Dus Mahavidyas (Great Goddesses of Wisdom): Tara

Kathmandu, Nepal, 2023