Explore common figures and forms in Himalayan art from Rubin’s collection, which spans more than 1,500 years to the present day and includes thangkas (scroll paintings), sculptures, and ritual objects, as well as photographs and multimedia works. Recognizing these key motifs, deities, and symbols helps illuminate the stories and meanings embedded in objects of great artistic, historical, and cultural significance from the greater Himalayan region.
Collection Highlights: Thematic Summaries
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Tibet, 19th century
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 18th century
Tibet, 15th century
Lhathok, Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 18th - 19th century
Nepal, 18th century
Northeastern India, 12th century
Central Tibet, 14th century
Tibet, ca. 16th century
Nepal, mid-19th century
Tibet, 13th-14th century
Ngor Ewam Choden Monastery, Tsang Province, Central Tibet, ca. 16th century
Central Tibet, 16th century
Tibet, 12th century
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, late 18th century, ca. 1760s
Tibet, 15th century
Central Tibet, 19th century
Nepal, Dated by inscription 1796
Central Tibet, 15th century
China, 15th century
China, first half of the 15th century
China, 1736–1795
Tibet, ca. 17th century
Kashmir or Himachal Pradesh, India, 11th century
Mongolia, 19th century
Eastern Tibet, Late 17th-18th century
Tibet, early 20th century
Mongolia, 19th century
Northeastern India, 12th century
Tsang Provence, Central Tibe, 16th century
Tibet, 17th century
Kashmir, India, 10th century
China, 1403-1424
Nepal, 13th - 14th century
Nepal, 12th-13th century
Nepal, 13th century
Nepal, Dated by inscription,1463
Central Tibet, 14th century
Mongolia, late 17th century or early 18th century
Tibet, 13th century
Tibet, 15th century
Central Tibet, ca. 1270
Tibet, early to mid-14th century
China, ca. 18th century
Mongolia, early 20th century
Nepal, 17th or 18th century
Eastern Tibet, 18th century
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 19th century
Central Tibet, 17th - 18th century
Tibet, early to mid-17th century
Tibet or China, 17th - 18th century
Nepal, Dated by inscription 1842
Kathmandu, Nepal, Dated by inscription 1775
Central Tibet, 19th century
Mongolia, 18th century
Tibet, late 18th or early 19th century
Ewam Choden Monastery, Tsang Province, Central Tibet, 1429-1456
Nepal, 17th or 18th century
Central Tibet, early 19th century
Tibet, 19th century
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 19th century
Tibet, 19th century
Tibet, 16th century
Central Tibet, 13th century
Bhutan, possibly Punakha Dzong, Mid-19th century
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 19th century
China, 17th - 18th century
Central Tibet, 17th century
Tibet or Mongolia, 19th century
Tibet, 19th century
Inner Mongolia, late 19th century
Afghanistan, 6th-7th century
Tibet or Mongolia, 18th - 19th century
Tibet, 17th century
Western Tibet, 15th century
Nepal, 2016
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 19th century
Tibet, 16th century
Bhutan, 19th century
Mongolia, 18th century
Ngor Ewam Choden Monastery, Tsang Province, Central Tibet, 1580s-1590s
Central Tibet, 18th century
Tibet, 19th century
Kham Province, Eastern Tibet, 19th century
Central Tibet, early 17th century (ca. 1604)
Tibet or China, Dated by inscription, 1667
Tsang Province, Central Tibet, 15th century
Western Tibet, 15th century
2010
Central Tibet, Early 20th century
Tsang Province, Central Tibet, 17th century
2018
Tibet or Mongolia, 19th century
Mindroling monastery, Tsang Province, Central Tibet, early 18th century
U Region, Central Tibet, 18th century
Gyelrong, Amdo Region, Eastern Tibet, 18th century
Central Tibet, late 17th century
Amdo Region, Eastern Tibet, 18th - 19th century
Tibet, 2000
2012
Mongolia, late 18th - early 19th century
Nepal, 14th century
Central Tibet, ca. 1590
Tibet, dated no later than 1635
Northeastern India, 12th century
Karnali Basin, Khasa Malla Kingdom, Northwestern Nepal, 13th-14th century
Tibet, 13th century
Lhasa, Tibet, 2006
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