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Gelug Refuge Field Page - Updated

A new addition has been added to the Gelug Refuge Field Page. The added painting is very unusual as it seems to present the Buddha with the One Thousand Buddhas of this Age, the Dharma and Sangha as the principal focus. The Guru and Ishtadevata are represented at the top center by Vajrasattva, Tsongkapa and Vajrabhairava. Two Wealth Deities, both forms of Jambhala, are placed to the right and left sides of the Eight Great Bodhisattvas (Sangha) in the bottom tier of the of the composition - just above the pink lotus. The Dharma protectors, represented here by the Four Guardian Kings, are found below the pink lotus amongst the other worldly inhabitants of the Buddhist universe.