Worldly Protector (Buddhist) - (unidentified)
(item no. 103)

Tibet

1800 - 1899

Nyingma and Buddhist Lineages

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

(acc.# F1997.7.3)

 


Red Tsen: an indigenous Tibetan protector deity.

Fearsome in appearance with one face and two hands, he holds upraised in the right a lance and in the left a lasso to the heart. Wearing the garb of a warrior he rides atop a blue horse completely surrounded by dark flame-like smoke. Three small attendant figures stand at the edge of the smoke.

At the top left is the Buddha Amitabha. On the right is the Guru Padmasambhava. At the bottom right and left are two fearsome retinue figures also mounted on horseback.

Jeff Watt 9-2000


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Buddhist Protectors: Worldly
Collection of Rubin Museum of Art: Painting Gallery II
1800 - 1899 (19th Century) Part I



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