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Dalai Lama Main Page - Updated

The Dalai Lama Main Page has been updated with additional images and content.


The only complete painting sets of the Dalai Lama incarnation lineage are the Gold Silk Set of Tibet House, New Delhi, and the five composition set of the Field Museum, Chicago. Both sets use the same exact iconographic model. The Tibet House set is unpainted while the Field Museum is fully painted and one of the finest examples known.


Unlike the subject of the Panchen Lamas, the Dalai Lama subject has very few paintings where the incarnation lineage is composed within a single painting. Only one example is represented here - single composition full lineage.