Tagla Membar (Bon Deity)
(item no. 200041)

Tibet

1800 - 1899

Bon Lineage

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

(acc.# P2000.19.5)

 
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Tagla Membar (English: Tiger-God, Flaming with Fire), the fierce form of a direct disciple of Tonpa Shenrab.

Wrathful, red in colour, with one face and two hands, he has three large round eyes, an open snarling mouth and orange-brown hair flaming upward. The right and left hands are both upraised and outstretched holding a golden wheel in the right and nine swords in the left. Adorned with a crown of five dry skulls, gold earrings, necklaces and freshly severed heads, across the shoulders he wears a green scarf and wrathful skins of animals and a human. Around the waist is a tiger skin skirt and snakes adorn the body. With the right leg bent and left straight in an aggressive posture atop two prone figures, a sun disc and multi-coloured lotus seat he stands encircled by the swirling orange flames of pristine awareness. Numerous wrathful retinue deities surround the central figure.

Jeff Watt & Lee Hartline 4-2001

Front of Painting
Wylie Transliteration of Inscription: rbad pa'i ma mo sde bzhi/ thugs las sprul pa'i ma mo sde lnga/ khrag gdong/ bcud dril/


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Exhibition Appearance
Exhibition: Bon, The Magic Word (RMA 2007)

Thematic Set
Subject: Deity (Multi-coloured)
Bon Artworks (All)
Collection of Rubin Museum of Art: Painting Gallery IX
Bon: Wrathful Deities
Bon Deity: Tagla Membar
Collection of Rubin Museum of Art: Bon Artworks



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