Mandala of
Item No. 770

Tibet

1500 - 1599

Uncertain Lineage

26.67x24.13cm (10.50x9.50in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

(acc.# P1998.28.1)

 
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Buddhasamayoga (Tibetan: sang gye nyam jor. English: Secret Union of the Enlightened One) arising from the tantra of the same name.

Wrathful in appearance, blue in colour, he has four faces and eight hands. The first pair embrace the consort Ishvari. In a dancing posture atop a corpse he stands in the center of a lotus surrounded by eight seated figures of various colour. Four further attendants and four door guardians sit outside of that.

At the four corners of the top and bottom are sixteen seated buddha figures all identical in appearance.

Jeff Watt 3-2000


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Mandala Paintings
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Buddhist Deity: Buddhasamayoga



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