Worldly Protector (Buddhist)
(item no. 90705)

Mongolia

1700 - 1799

Uncertain Lineage

67.31x48.26cm (26.50x19in)

Ground Mineral Pigment, Fine Gold Line on Cotton

Collection of Tibet House, New York


 


Dralha (Enemy God) surrounded by eight attendants.

Regal in appearance, with a moustache and goatee, the right arm is raised holding a riding crop and the left holds a lasso at the heart. Dressed in the garb of a warrior with a helmet and armor, a sword, bow and quiver of arrows hang at the waist. Seated atop a white horse, his head is ringed with a dark green areola.

Eight identical attendant figures accompany Dralha. At the top center is the wrathful bodhisattva Vajrapani, blue, with one face and two hands, standing in a heap of blazing orange fire. Various offerings and wild animals fill the green mountainous foreground.

Jeff Watt 2-2000


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Thematic Set
Collection of Tibet House: New York (Repatriation)
Kings: India, Tibet & Shambhala
Kings: Tibetan
1700 - 1799 (18th Century) Part III
Painting Style: Eastern Tibetan
Tibetan Deity: Dralha



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