Mahakala (protector) - Panjarnata (Lord of the Pavilion)
(item no. 65004)

Tibet

1700 - 1799

Sakya Lineage

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

(acc.#C2001.1.4)

 
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Great Black One, Lord of the Pavilion (Tibetan: gur gyi gon po. Sanskrit: Panjarnata Mahakala). This form of Panjarnata in solitary aspect is the special protector of the Panjarnata Tantra, an exclusive explanatory tantra to the Two-Section Hevajra Tantra. The tradition of Solitary Panjarnata is passed down through the Margapala lineage of the Sakya Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

"The Great Vajra Mahakala, blazing, with one face, two hands, in the right a curved knife and left a skullcup filled with blood, held above and below the heart. Held across the middle of the two arms is the 'Gandhi of Emanation;' with three eyes, bared fangs, yellow hair flowing upward, a crown of five dry human skulls and a necklace of fifty fresh, blood-dripping. [He is] adorned with six bone ornaments and snakes, with a lower garment of tiger skin, flowing with penants and streamers of various silks; dwarfish and thick, in a posture standing above a corpse." (Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557).

Jeff Watt, 4-2001


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Thematic Set
Buddhist Protectors: Enlightened
Painting Type: Black Ground
Buddhist Protector: Mahakala (All Forms)
Collection of Rubin Museum of Art: Painting Gallery I
Mahakala: Panjarnata (Pavilion)
1700 - 1799 (18th Century) Part II



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