Angry holding Vajra Bodhisattva Thangka

[Angry Holding Vajra Bodhisattva Thangka]

Angry 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 “Angry Vajra Hand” in Tibetan, has a blue body, an angry face, three eyes wide open, a mouth showing teeth and curling tongue, red hair in flames, a crown of treasure, a snake armpit around the body, a tiger skin skirt around the waist, a Vajra pestle in the right hand, a Vajra bell in the left hand, and a standing posture on the throne of the lotus in Taiyang. The upper bound is Zongkaba and Baosheng Buddha, and the lower bound is Tianyi Buddha Mother. The Thangka is framed with woven gold satin, and the back has a white silk sign with four-body ink script in Han, Manchu and Mongolian. The Chinese text reads: “On the seventh day of August, the forty-fifth year of Qianlong’s reign, the Panchen Erdeni entered the Danshuk to worship the benefit portrait and held the Vajra Bodhisattva. The second from the left”.