Himalayan Art Resources

Item: Shakyamuni Buddha - Life Story

ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ། 释迦牟尼佛
(item no. 102252)
Origin Location Tibet
Date Range 1800 - 1899
Lineages Kagyu and Buddhist
Collection Shechen Archives - photographs
Notes about the Central Figure

Classification: Person

Gender: Male

Interpretation / Description

Shakyamuni Buddha (Tibetan: sha kya tu pa, sang gye. English: the Enlightened One, Sage of the Shakya Clan) life story vignettes from a set of five paintings. (See detail images).

Sanskrit: Buddha Shakyamuni Tibetan: Sang gye sha kya tu pa

Jeff Watt 3-2012

Secondary Images
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Shakyamuni Buddha: Life Story Main Page
Subject: Greyscale - Figurative & General Composition
Subject: Rainbow Imagery