Shangle Wangfo Thangka

[Shangle Wangfo Thangka]

Shangle Wangfo Thangka, 18th century, Beijing, cloth, color, 58 cm high, 46 cm wide, 28 cm vertical and 22 cm horizontal. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The King of Music Buddha in this Thangka is a shape of twelve arms on four sides. The main statue wears five skull crowns on his head, with fifty human heads as garlands, six kinds of wreaths adorning his body, and a tiger skin skirt around his waist, embracing the red Vajrayana of the Princess. The princess also wore a skull crown and wreaths. Her right arm was raised, and her left arm was clasped around the neck of the Buddha. Her legs were folded around her waist, and she looked up at the Lord. On the painting, there is a large holding vajra in the middle of the square, and the performer of the music vajra method is on the side of the body, with the four empty line mother as the outer guard on the left and right. In the middle of the lower part of the Lord is the different appearance of the Shangle King Buddha, and the left and right Dharmapalas are the four-arm brave Dharma Protector and the Shituolin Master. This Thangka is bright and beautiful in color, and the painting is meticulous. It is matched with the unique technology of weaving red silk with the character of golden longevity, which is exquisite and gorgeous
On the back of the Thangka, there is a white silk label with four-body ink script in Han, Manchu and Mongolian. The Chinese text reads: “On the first day of June in the forty-third year of Qianlong’s reign, the emperor ordered Zhang Jiahu Tuktu to recognize and worship the benefit portrait of the Buddha, the first on the left.”.

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