India’s great achiever, Dragon Tree Thangka

[India’s great achiever, the dragon tree Thangka]

India’s great achiever, the dragon tree Thangka, 17th century, Tibet, the cloth is colored, the painting center is 60 cm long and 42 cm wide. The old collection of the Qing Palace
Longshu (1st century, say the 3rd century), a member of Andaro people in South India, is one of the eighty-four great achievers in early India, and the main inheritor of Jimi Buddhism. Later, he founded the Middle School, which has a great impact on Tibetan Buddhism, especially the Yellow Sect
The dragon tree is dressed in a Fubao cassock, with a statement seal in his hand, sitting on the lotus platform with red and blue background light behind his body, and eight colorful dragons appear on his head. He looks calm and serene. Surrounded by him are 27 of the eighty-four achievers. From the top left, they are in the following order: Brahman Tantra, the lowly traveler, Jinzhou, who is proficient in the secret meaning of scripture, Dozepa, the princess of the Ming Dynasty, Gonggase, the blessed yogi, Zhegomi, the master of liberation and conversion, and Picchu, the moon name that explains the secret meaning of Master Longshu, Maizhijian, the naked immortal in the cold forest, and Gandoba, the lowly traveler, Karna day, the lowly walker of the royal family who accompanied the princess, the black walker who was loyal to the teachings of the guru, the oil extractor who saw the Buddha in person, Louba, the dragon tree, the mother who saved the eighth degree of difficulty, the Zariba who was proficient in the pulse, the Brahman monk Pacangba, the Kongka… the sage, the fisherman’s Naked Walker, Jianpari, the woodcutter Sakya Xieni, the Dariga who saw the five hundred brothels of Kongka, the blacksmith’s sister Shavariba, and the cave Yekan who saw his Kongka in person, Hanlin… Declare Master…,…, Naga Bodhi, the cattle herder, Mahana, the Hanlin cultivator,… Kundama, Hanlin… Pasayali, the carnivore.