Indian Adept (siddha)
(item no. 15434)

Eastern Tibet

1800 - 1899

Buddhist Lineage

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

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Eighty-four Mahasiddha of the Abhayadatta System based on the depictions documented by Jonang Taranata (1575-1635) as commissioned and painted as murals in the Ganden Puntsogling Monastery, Tibet. (See Abhayadatta Outline Page).

This painting belongs to an eleven painting set and depicts eight Indian adepts, siddhas, from early in the list following the Abhayadatta system: numbers 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. The composition is the 8th painting (R4) in the set and placed 3rd to to the proper right of the central painting.

Numbered List:
Top center: Sarvanivarana Vishkambhin Bodhisattva
53. Jogipa
54. Chelukapa
55. Godhuripa
56. Luchikapa
57. Nirgunapa
58. Jayananda
59. Pacharipa
60. Champaka

Jeff Watt 6-2009


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