Weide Auspicious Mother of Heaven Thangka

[Weide Auspicious Mother of Heaven Thangka]

Weide Auspicious Mother of Heaven Thangka, 18th century, Beijing, with cloth color, 151 cm high, 127 cm wide, 96 cm vertical and 64 cm horizontal
The auspicious celestial mother of Weide is painted by the third generation of Zhang Jiaguo according to the scriptures. The auspicious celestial mother is located in the center of the picture, with a black and blue body, an angry face, red hair, five skull crowns on the head, gnawing teeth and rolling tongue, hanging a large human head wreath, and a snake as the arm. The right hand holds the diamond pestle, and the left hand holds the gabala bowl. There is a ghost card on the waist, and the mule under the seat is hung with a disease bag and a pair of dice, and gallops in the sea of blood. The upper boundary is the three supreme gods of the Gelug Sect, namely, the Great Vajra, the Dense Vajra and the Shangle Vajra. Surrounded by the goddess of the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, as well as the five long-lived Tianmu and the goddess of the twelve Danma
The back of the portrait is pasted with a white silk label, which is inscribed in four characters of Han, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan in ink, Among them, the Chinese text reads: “On the first day of June in the forty-third year of Qianlong’s reign, a decree was issued to hand over the Zhangjiahu Tuke map to offer a respectful portrait of the Weide auspicious heavenly mother, the limadi animal image protector, the lion image protector, the four-hour auspicious heavenly mother, the augmenting auspicious heavenly mother, the five long-lived heavenly mothers, the twelve eternal protectors of the dharma sect heavenly mother, and so on, according to the scriptures, to worship the Weide auspicious heavenly mother, the limadi animal image protector, the lion image protector, the four-hour auspicious heavenly mother, the five long-lived heavenly mothers, and the twelve eternal protectors of the dharma sect heavenly mother.” There is also a yellow inscription: “This kind of axis, the Buddha Sun Tower

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