(item no. 65280)
 Eastern Tibet 1800 - 1899 Buddhist Lineage Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton Collection of Rubin Museum of Art 
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Akashagarbha, Bodhisattva (Tibetan: nam kai nying po. English: Nucleus of Space): belonging to the group of Eight Great Bodhisattvas. An inscription found on an virtually identical painting from the Hahn Collection names the central subject as the bodhisattva Nivaranavishkambhin (Tibetan Wylie: sgrib pa rnam sel). See Art of Thangka, From the Kwang-Ho Collection. Volume 2. Plate 71, Sarvanivaranaviskambhin. Jeff Watt 3-2004
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Collection of Rubin Museum of Art: Painting Gallery I
Buddhist Figure: Bodhisattva (Main Page)
Buddhist Deity: Akashagarbha
Subject: Non-iconic Bodhisattva
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