Wheel Buddha Thangka

[Shilun Wangfo Thangka]

Shilun Wangfo Thangka, 18th century, Tibet, cloth, color, 126 cm high, 68.5 cm wide, 63 cm vertical and 42 cm horizontal. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The image of the Wheel Buddha is the most complex among all the masters. This painting shows the blue double body of the chakra Vajra on four sides, with three eyes on each side. The right side is red, and the left side is painted with two sides, one white and one yellow. In fact, the yellow face is originally the face facing the back of the chakra Buddha, which is placed on the left due to the plane representation of the painting. The Lord Buddha has 24 arms, which are fan-shaped and distributed on both sides of the body. The top eight arms are white, the middle eight arms are red, and the lower eight arms are blue. The two arms embrace the Princess, holding the Vajra pestle in their hands, and the other hands are also holding magic weapons. Through careful identification, it can be seen that the five fingers of each hand are different in yellow, white, red, blue, and green. According to the continuation of the scripture, the princess also has yellow, white, blue and red sides, while in the actual painting, she usually only painted two sides, eight arms in total, covered in golden yellow, facing up to the main face and embracing Vajra, and facing down in white. The two figures are both nude, only decorated with tiger skin and wreaths at the waist, and the white sky and red sky are stepped on the left and right feet, with the back light lined with flame. The main statue is painted with five colors of auspicious clouds above, and the mountains, rocks and flowers below. The four Indian ancestors who inherit the Shilun teachings are painted in the four corners of the picture. The figure image has distinctive exotic characteristics and is vivid and vivid
This Thangka is bright in color, delicate in brushwork, compact in composition and prominent in main body. It has the painting style of post-Tibetan Thangka on the whole, and its gorgeous mounting is made by the Qing court. On the back of the Thangka, there is a white silk sign with four-body ink script in Han, Manchu and Mongolian. The Chinese text reads: “On the fourth day of the first month of the thirty-ninth year of Qianlong’s reign, the Banchen Erdeni respectfully drew the benefit of the statue of the Shilun King Buddha.” There is also a yellow inscription: “In the middle, this sample is divided into thirty-three axes”.

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