Thangka

51-4-123

From: East Tibet

Curatorial Section: Asian

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Native Name Thangka
Object Number 51-4-123
Current Location Collections Storage
Culture Tibetan | Buddhist
Provenience East Tibet
Date Made 19th Century
Section Asian
Technique Painted
Iconography Tara | Green Tara | Avalokitesvara | Amitabha Buddha | Padmasambhava | Kubera | Lion | Offerings | Jewels
Description

Painting. Green Tara and the Twenty-one Taras according to the tradition of Jowo Atisha. Green Tara, with twenty smaller representations of her (usually the latter have different colors and different forms). Above 4-armed Avalokitesvara, Amitabha, Padmasambhava. Bottom: Kubera on his lion and offerings of precious jewels. Good East Tibetan painting.

Credit Line Gift of Mrs. Robert R. Service, 1951
Other Number 28 - Other Number

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