Nagaraksha
(item no. 277)

1700 - 1799

Drigung (Kagyu) Lineage

63.50x45.72cm (25x18in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Provincial Painting School

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

(acc.# P1996.16.4)

 


Nagaraksha (Tibetan: lui drag po): a fierce form of the bodhisattva Manjushri from the Drigung lineage of the Kagyu Tradition.

With nine heads and a multitude of hands, the lower body is that of a coiled snake tail, green in colour, with snakes arising from the crown of the head and the entire form surrounded by flames of wisdom.

Jeff Watt 11-2000


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Thematic Set
Tradition: Kagyu Deity Paintings
Collection of Rubin Museum of Art: Painting Gallery VII
Buddhist Deity: Nagaraksha
1700 - 1799 (18th Century) Part I



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