Amitabha
(item no. 15126)

Tibet

1800 - 1899

Karma (Kagyu) Lineage

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Karma Gardri Painting School

Collection of Shechen Archives - photographs


 


Amitabha Buddha (Tibetan: o pag me, sang gye. English: the Enlightened One of Immeasurable Light): red in colour, seated on a peacock throne, with both hands placed in the lap in the mudra (gesture) of meditation supporting a black begging bowl; surrounded by the 'Eight Great Heart-sons' of the Buddha.

Jeff Watt 11-2000


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Thematic Set
Collection of Shechen Archives: Gallery I
Buddhist Deity: Amitabha, Nirmanakaya Buddha
1800 - 1899 (19th Century) Part II



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