[Secret Buddha – Dense Immovable Vajra Thangka]
Secret Buddha – Dense Immovable Vajra 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 statue is called Dense Immovable Vajra. It has two blue bodies, three sides and six arms, and the main body is dark blue. It embraces the princess. The right hand holds Vajra pestle, Dharma wheel and lotus respectively, and the left hand holds Vajra bell, Mani and sword respectively. It ends up sitting on the lotus platform. The Princess Ming faced the Lord and sat with her arms embracing each other. The body color of Princess Ming is a little light, and the objects in her hands are the same as those of the Buddha. On the upper left of the picture is the painting of the Lord Sangjieshi, on the upper right is the Immovable Buddha, and on the lower right is the Dharma Protector of Brahma, with Tibetan inscriptions. This Thangka is set off by mountains, rivers and trees, and decorated with tangled flowers and various offerings. The picture is full and prominent, and the painting is also exquisite, representing the superb level of post-Tibetan Thangka painting
There is a white silk label on the back of the Thangka, with an inscription in four-body Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan characters on the ink. The Chinese text reads: “On the seventh day of August, the forty-fifth year of Qianlong’s reign, Panchen Erdeni went into the Danshuk to worship the benefit portrait of the Yangti Secret Buddha… the fourth from the right”.
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