Embroidered Thangka of auspicious Heavenly Mother

[Embroidery of the Thangka of Auspicious Heavenly Mother]

Embroidery of the Thangka of Auspicious Heavenly Mother, 18th century, inland, silk, embroidery, with a total height of 103 cm, a width of 69 cm, a vertical center of 69 cm, and a horizontal center of 50 cm. The old collection of the Qing Palace
Auspicious Heavenly Mother, also known as Auspicious Heavenly Mother, is the first female Dharmapala in the Tibetan Buddhist Pantheon. The blue body of the auspicious mother of heaven on the screen is majestic. He wears five skull crowns, three eyes wide open, and bares his fangs. Wearing a large skeleton wreath, holding a gabala bowl filled with child blood in the left hand, waving a diamond pestle in the right hand, with a ghost tag on the waist, riding a yellow mule with three eyes, is trudging through the floating blood sea of the skeleton, symbolizing that she has crossed the three realms of heaven, earth and sea. Her whole body was haunted by the burning cloud of fire. There are three Buddha statues in the space at the top of the screen. The center is the Great Vajra, the left is the Dense Vajra, and the right is the Shangle Vajra; The lower part of the picture is the subordinate gods of the auspicious heavenly mother
The Thangka is embroidered with the image of auspicious Mother of Heaven on the natural color satin, with rich colors, and all of them are represented by the method of removing halo. The stitch method is flat embroidery, nail thread, flat gold, and oblique winding needle. The grass at the bottom is painted with green and ochre, and the outer edge of the embroidered image is decorated with red gold longevity character weaving gold satin
There is a white silk label on the back of the Thangka, which is inscribed in four characters of Han, Manchu, Mongol and Tibetan in ink, in which the Chinese text is: “On December 20, the forty-fifth year of Qianlong’s reign, the emperor ordered Zhang Jiahu Tuke to recognize and worship the benefit embroidered image of auspicious heavenly mother…”.

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