Wheel Buddha Thangka

[Shilun Wangfo Thangka]

Shilun Wangfo Thangka, 18th century, Tibet, cloth, color, 138 cm high, 83 cm wide, 68 cm vertical and 46.5 cm horizontal. The old collection of the Qing Palace
The Buddha of the Vajrayana Supreme Yoga Department of the Tantric School is divided into three parts, namely, father, mother and no two. In the Qing Dynasty, the “Yang body” and “Yin body” were used to describe the father and mother. The father continued to express convenience and the mother continued to express wisdom. According to the division of the fundamental renewal of the chakra, the chakra Vajra is the supreme renewal. The shape, color, and holding objects of the main statue are the same as the standard image of the time wheel king Buddha described in the “Records of the Body Color of the All Respects”. Guru Zhang Jia recognized the name as “Yin body time wheel king Buddha”, that is, the mother of the original Buddha, which is based on the division of the Huangjiao Vajrayana teaching method
The main figure of this painting is in the middle, with blue double body, 24 arms around, embracing the princess, and standing on the right. The top is painted with the top bun of Sakyamuni, the teacher of the Xiankai, and the top left and right are painted with the time wheel inheritor, Wang Yuexian of Shangri-La Dharma, and the achievers. The “History of Zhuba Religion” records that Wang Yuexian and his great-grandfather heard of the time wheel teachings from the Buddha in South India. At the bottom of the picture, the center of the picture is painted with the King of King Kong, the left is painted with Latum, and the right is painted with the Dharma Protector of Wisdom Mirs. The composition of the picture is sparse and clear, the color is elegant, and the painting of the flat and wide landscape shows the influence of the Han painting style. The painting rules of clouds and distant trees in the painting also show the Tibetan painting tradition with strong decorative style. Thangka as a whole reveals the trend of Sino-Tibetan style integration, which should be the work of the Tibetan painting school. On the back of the Thangka, there is a four-body ink book with a white silk label in Han, Manchu and Mongolian. The Chinese text reads: “On December 24, the forty-eighth year of Qianlong’s reign, the emperor ordered Zhang Jiahu Tuktu to recognize and worship the benefit portrait of the Yin Shilun Buddha.”

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