Secret Buddha – dense Vajra holding Thangka

[Secret Buddha – Dense Vajra Holding Thangka]

Secret Buddha – Dense Vajra Holding Thangka, 18th century, Tibet, cloth, color, 122 cm high, 76 cm wide, 64 cm vertical and 44 cm horizontal. The old collection of the Qing Palace
This Thangka is named Dense Vajrayana. It has two blue bodies and six arms on three sides. The master and the imperial concubine sat with each other embracing each other. The three sides were white, red and blue. The master embraced the imperial concubine with two arms in front of each other, holding the bell and pestle, and the rest held the Dharma wheel and lotus in the right hand. The left hand held Mani and the sword, and sat on the lotus seat with folded arms. The body color of the Buddha Mother is slightly lighter, and the objects in her hands are the same as the Buddha. On the top left of the painting is the Immovable Buddha, on the top right is the Sacred Dragon Tree, and on the bottom of the Lord is the Dharma Protector, with Tibetan inscriptions. Zhou Za painted landscapes, flowers and various treasures
There is a white silk label on the back of the Thangka. There is a four-body inscription in Han, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan characters written in ink. The Chinese text is: “On the seventh day of August in the forty-fifth year of Qianlong’s reign, Panchen Erdeni went into the Danshuk to worship the benefit portrait of the Yangti Secret Buddha… third from the right”.