Wheel of Life
(item no. 91037)

Tibet

1800 - 1899

Uncertain Lineage

55.88x40.64cm (22x16in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Erie Art Museum


 
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Wheel of Life (Tibetan: sid pa'i kor lo. Sanskrit: bhavana chakra). The red fearsome deity, the personification of worldly existence, clutches the disc of the six realms of existence between the jaws ready to bite down and swallow at any moment - impermanence.

Jeff Watt 9-2000


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Painting Type: Coloured Ground
Wheel of Life: Six Sections



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