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A gallery of early painted depictions of Padmasambhava spanning the 13th to 16th centuries. Only two of the early works depict Padmasambhava as the central figure. The remaining images present him as a minor figure or within the lineage teachers in the uppermost register of the composition. The vast majority of artworks depicting Padmasambhava are post 17th century.
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A page for the 'Revealed Treasure' deity Black Hayagriva Riding a Tiger has been added. More images will be included as they are identified.
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A main page for Guru Chowang has been added along with a short biography. More images will be included as they are identified.
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A page collecting together images of the Revealed Treasure Traditions of Nyangral Nyima Ozer has been added. More images will be included as they are identified. Five of the examples have depictions of Nyangral along with an accompanying Tibetan name inscription.
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A main page for Nyangral Nyima Ozer has been added along with a biography from the Treasury of Lives website.
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Sculptural images of Milarepa depicted in mountain settings have been added. The examples exhibited are from Mongolia, China and Tibet.
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Another type of Bon Refuge Field (Field of Accumulation) places the teacher Nyamme Sherab Gyaltsen at the center of the composition. All scroll paintings and murals of Bon Refuge Fields so far identified are creations of the late 19th and 20th centuries.
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The circular Refuge Field (Field of Accumulation) compositions of the Bon religion that use the deity Shenlha Okar as the central figure are believed to have been designed by Shardza Tashi Gyaltsen (1859-1933) in the early 20th century based on a dream or vision.
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Yantra of People are generally used for various types of protection. The most common yantra is that of Jatson Nyingpo (1585-1656) a famous 'treasure revealer' of the Nyingma Terma Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. He studied both Nyingma and Sarma traditions and was a prolific writer with over 300 texts to his name.
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