Period:Unknown Production date:19thC
Materials:textile
Technique:painted
Subjects:deity equestrian
Dimensions:Height: 1615 millimetres (Height with hanging attachment) Height: 1550 millimetres (Painting in brocade mount) Height: 862 millimetres (Painting only) Width: 570 millimetres (Painting only) Width: 908 millimetres (with roller) Depth: 40 millimetres (with roller)
Description:
Thang Kha depicting the Dharmapāla Mahākāla seated on a naked figure, holding a blood-filled skull-cup, a fruit, a sword and a wand; wearing a crown of skulls below hair and a garland of severed heads at waist; two skeletons dancing at his sides; below four bird-beaked goddesses and Lha-mo on mule; at top Saraha holding the arrow, and Nagarjuna and Na-lto-pa or Lui-pa, flanked in their turn by the first Panchen Lama and Ngag-dbang Byams-pa. Painting on cloth.
IMG
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Comments:Zwalf 1985Mahākāla (cf. no. 149), seated on a naked figure as Protector of Science, holds a blood-filled skull-cup, a fruit instead of the chopper, and the usual sword and wand with a trident above a skull. He is blue with a crown of skulls below erect and billowing hair, and from his waist hangs a garland of severed heads. Skeletons dance, and below are four bird-beaked goddesses with choppers and skull-cups and the protectress Lha-mo (Śri Devī) on her mule. At the top is the ‘siddha’ Saraha holding the arrow symbolising his swift comprehension; beside him are the Indian scholar Ñāgārjuna and the ‘siddha’ Ña-lto-pa or Lui-pa, flanked in their turn by the first Panchen Lama and Ngag-dbang Byams-pa, a literary assistant of the Fifth Dalai Lama.
Materials:textile
Technique:painted
Subjects:deity equestrian
Dimensions:Height: 1615 millimetres (Height with hanging attachment) Height: 1550 millimetres (Painting in brocade mount) Height: 862 millimetres (Painting only) Width: 570 millimetres (Painting only) Width: 908 millimetres (with roller) Depth: 40 millimetres (with roller)
Description:
Thang Kha depicting the Dharmapāla Mahākāla seated on a naked figure, holding a blood-filled skull-cup, a fruit, a sword and a wand; wearing a crown of skulls below hair and a garland of severed heads at waist; two skeletons dancing at his sides; below four bird-beaked goddesses and Lha-mo on mule; at top Saraha holding the arrow, and Nagarjuna and Na-lto-pa or Lui-pa, flanked in their turn by the first Panchen Lama and Ngag-dbang Byams-pa. Painting on cloth.
IMG
Comments:Zwalf 1985Mahākāla (cf. no. 149), seated on a naked figure as Protector of Science, holds a blood-filled skull-cup, a fruit instead of the chopper, and the usual sword and wand with a trident above a skull. He is blue with a crown of skulls below erect and billowing hair, and from his waist hangs a garland of severed heads. Skeletons dance, and below are four bird-beaked goddesses with choppers and skull-cups and the protectress Lha-mo (Śri Devī) on her mule. At the top is the ‘siddha’ Saraha holding the arrow symbolising his swift comprehension; beside him are the Indian scholar Ñāgārjuna and the ‘siddha’ Ña-lto-pa or Lui-pa, flanked in their turn by the first Panchen Lama and Ngag-dbang Byams-pa, a literary assistant of the Fifth Dalai Lama.
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