Teacher (Lama) - Dorje Pal
(item no. 120)

Central Tibet

1800 - 1899

Gelug Lineage

64.77x39.37cm (25.50x15.50in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

(acc.# F1997.9.1)

 


Yungdron Dorje Pal (b.1284): one of the principal disciples of Buton Rinchen Drup.

Panchen Lama Biographical Details

With a fierce expression, holding upraised in the right hand a 'kila' dagger, he holds in the left extended outward a skullcup offered to the mouth of a wrathful red deity. Wearing the orange and red robes of a monk he also wears the red pandita hat of a scholar; seated in a relaxed posture atop a tiger skin.

At the top left is the wrathful tutelary deity Rakta Yamari standing atop a buffalo. At the right side, within a sphere of blue light, a lama wearing monastic robes and a pandita hat reads from a folio text. At the lower left are three seated monks and on the right is the wrathful wisdom protector Mahakala 'Gonpo Legden.'

This painting is from a series of portaits of the lives of the Panchen Lamas.

Jeff Watt 9-2000


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Thematic Set
Tradition: Gelug Teachers (Paintings)
Collection of Rubin Museum of Art: Painting Gallery II
1800 - 1899 (19th Century) Part I
Painting Style: Central Tibetan
Teacher: Yungton Dorje Pal
Incarnation Lineage: Panchen Lama, Previous Births



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