Shangle Wangfo Thangka

[Shangle Wangfo Thangka]

Shangle Wangfo Thangka, 18th century, Tibet, cloth, color, 124 cm high, 67 cm wide, 66 cm vertical and 45 cm horizontal. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The King Buddha of Shangle is also known as Shangle Vajra and Shengle Vajra. Because it is the mother of supreme yoga, the Qing Palace is known as the “King Buddha of Shangle in Yin”. Shangle Vajra has many changes, and the body shape is different from that of single body, double body, one side with two arms, and multiple heads with wide arms. The Tibetan name of Shangle Vajra on the single white body in this painting is “Derobazong Shangle”, which is one of the rare images of Shangle. The main figure in the painting has 16 arms on all sides and is white in color. Only the two sides and the top side are red, blue and yellow respectively. Wearing a skull crown on the head, topless, wearing a wreath, wearing a skirt at the waist, standing in a right posture, with four arms on each foot, male and female. The two main arms are crossed in front of the chest, holding the bell and pestle, and the other arms are bent and extended to the left and right. The hands are divided into cranial implements, ropes, wheels, bottles, bows, axes, arrows, guns, swords, hooks, sticks, sticks, and other magic tools, or the end of the mark. In the upper left of the picture, the Indian achiever of Shengle Vajra Dharma is sitting naked; Inheritor of Pictorial Land at the upper right. The four-arm large black Dharma Protector is painted below the Lord, with various offerings on both sides
There is a white silk label on the back of the Thangka, which is inscribed in Chinese, Manchu, Mongolian and Tibetan four-body characters, and the Chinese text is: “On the seventh day of August, the forty-fifth year of Qianlong’s reign, Panchen Erdeni entered the Danshuk to worship the benefit portrait of the Yin body Shangle King Buddha… the fourth from the left”.

上乐王佛唐卡背后白绫签