Thangka

[Four Thangkas including Bagura]

Four Thangkas including Bagura, 18th century, Tibet, cloth, color, 130 cm high, 78 cm wide, 70 cm vertical and 47.5 cm horizontal. The old collection of the Qing Palace
This Thangka is from a group of paintings and is hung on the right side of the Thangka of Sakyamuni Buddha in the middle. Therefore, all four of them face the left and salute the Buddha in the middle. In the picture, the person holding the weasel in the upper right hand is the Bagura Venerable; On the left hand side, the person who has the Zen meditation seal is the one who annotates the mandala and half the Buddha; The lower right hand holds the scripture, and the left hand holds the statement that the person who is printed is the Bantoga Venerable; The person holding the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra in both hands at the lower left is the Buddhist monk
On the back of the Thangka, there is a white silk label with a four-body inscription in Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan characters, in which the Chinese text is: “On October 20, Qianlong’s forty-seventh year, the emperor ordered Zhang Jiahu Tuktu to recognize and worship the benefit portraits of Bhagula, Bantoga, Bantoga, Bantoga…”.

巴古拉等四尊者唐卡