Secret Buddha – Dense Vajrasattva Thangka

[Secret Buddha – Dense Vajrasattva Thangka]

Secret Buddha – Dense Vajrasattva 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 Vajrasattva, with white double body, three sides and six arms, white main face, red on the left and blue on the right, slightly angry. The two main arms embrace the princess, the other right hand holds vajra pestle and sword, and the left hand holds Yopola flower and Dharma wheel. The princess is also white, with her main face up and touching my lips. Her two main arms embrace my neck, and the other four arms hold the same thing as me. Dense Vajrasattva sat with her legs folded around the Lord’s waist, facing the Lord. On the upper left of the painting is painted the Great Holding Vajra, on the upper right is painted the fifth Panchen Lama Rasang Yixi, and on the lower right is painted the Brahman body auspicious parents, and on both sides are Chen Zhu’s offerings
There is a white silk label on the back of the Thangka, which is written in four characters of Han, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan on the ink. The Chinese text is: “On the seventh day of August in the forty-fifth year of Qianlong’s reign, Panchen Erdeni entered the Danshuk to worship the benefit portrait of the Yangti Secret Buddha…… Second from the right”.