Himalayan Art Resources

Item: Indian Adept (siddha) - (multiple figures)

རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་གྲུབ་ཆེན། 印度大成就者
(item no. 57823)
Origin Location Tibet
Date Range 1800 - 1899
Lineages Buddhist
Collection Private
Painting School Palpung / Situ
Notes about the Central Figure

Classification: Person

Interpretation / Description

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).

Shantideva, depicted as a monastic figure, is located at the middle left. He rises above his cushioned seat floating in the air before flying off into the sky.

This painting belongs to an eleven painting set and depicts eight Indian adepts, siddhas, late in the list following the Abhayadatta system: numbers 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43 and 44. The composition is the 6th painting (R3) in the set and placed 3rd to the proper right hand side of the central image.

Top center: Vajrapani Bodhisattva
37. Mahipa
38. Achintapa
39. Babhaha
40. Nalipa
41. Shantideva (Bhusukhu)
42. Indrabhuti
43. Mekopa
44. Kotalipa

Jeff Watt 6-2009

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