Lion skin holding Vajra Bodhisattva Thangka

[Lion skin holding Vajra Bodhisattva Thangka]

Lion skin holding Vajra Bodhisattva Thangka, 18th century, Tibet, cloth, color, 127 cm high, 76 cm wide, 66 cm vertical and 44 cm horizontal. The old collection of the Qing Palace
This holding Vajra Bodhisattva, named “Lion Skin Vajra Hand” in Tibetan, has a blue body, an angry face, three eyes wide open, a grinning mouth and a curling tongue, red hair in flames, a crown of jewels, a snake armpit around the body, a tiger skin skirt around the waist, a Vajra pestle in the right hand, a Shike stamp in the left hand, and a standing posture in the left, standing on the lotus stage, with a flame backlight behind. The upper boundary is the name of good, auspicious king Tathagata and Fahai Tathagata, and the lower boundary is the red sky. On the back of the Thangka, there is a white silk sign with four-body ink script in Han, Manchu and Mongolian. The Chinese text reads: “On the seventh day of August of the forty-fifth year of Qianlong’s reign, Panchen Erdeni went into Danshuk to worship the benefit portrait holding Vajra Bodhisattva.”.