Himalayan Art Resources

Item: Medicine Buddha - Retinue Buddha

སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་ལྷ། 药师佛
(item no. 60905)
Origin Location Tibet
Date Range 1400 - 1499
Lineages Sakya and Buddhist
Material Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Collection Bodleian Libraries , University of Oxford
Notes about the Central Figure

Classification: Deity

Interpretation / Description

Abhijnaraja Buddha: belonging to a set of nine paintings depicting the fifty-one deities of the Medicine Buddha mandala.

Jeff Watt 6-2014

Secondary Images
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Thematic Sets
Buddhist Deity: Medicine Buddha Painting
Buddhist Deity: Medicine Buddha (Miscellaneous Painting Sets)
Subject: Object Writeup (Painting)
Buddhist Deity: Medicine Buddha Main Page
Buddhist Deity: Medicine Buddha, 药师佛, སངས་རྒྱས་སྨན་ལྷ། (Masterworks)
Painting Style: Gyantse Scroll Paintings
Collection of Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Painting Set: Medicine Buddha (Gyantse)
Buddhist Deity: Medicine Buddha (Early Paintings)
Subject: Masterworks (Buddha, 佛陀, སངས་རྒྱས།)
Painting Style: Gyantse (Large Format)