Special Features & Tools | Definition: Himalayan Style Art | Painting Sets Outline | Life Story Sets Outline | Painting Sets Index/Glossary
Greyscale images have been created and added throughout the site to indicate which individual paintings in the HAR database belong to sets. The size of the Greyscale Image is meant to help in identifying the approximate number of paintings in the set. In some cases the actual number of compositions is known and it is not known. The examples below give some idea as to which common art subjects are found in sets and how those sets are numbered.
Two Paintings (2): Shakyamuni Buddha Life-story
Three Paintings (3): Shakyamuni Buddha & the Sixteen Arhats, Eight Mahasiddhas, Eighty-four Mahasiddhas, Buddhas of the Three Times, Three Hundred Icons
Five Paintings (5): Shakyamuni Buddha & the Sixteen Arhats, Six Ornaments & Two Excellent Ones
Seven Paintings (7): Shakyamuni Buddha & the Sixteen Arhats
Nine Paintings (9): Shakyamuni Buddha & the Sixteen Arhats, Eight Mahasiddhas, Eight Bodhisattvas, Six Ornaments & Two Excellent Ones, Padmasambhava Eight Forms
Eleven Paintings (11): Shakyamuni Buddha & the Sixteen Arhats, Eighty-four Mahasiddhas
Thirteen Paintings (13): Dalai Lama, Panchen Lama
Fifteen Paintings (15): Tsongkapa Life Story
Seventeen Paintings (17):
Nineteen Paintings (19): Milarepa Life Story
Twenty-one Paintings (21): Shakyamuni Buddha & the Sixteen Arhats, Twenty-one Taras
Twenty-three Paintings (23): Shakyamuni Buddha & the Sixteen Arhats, Eighty-four Mahasiddhas
Thirty-three Paintings (33): Karma Kagyu Lineage
Thirty-five Paintings (35): Confession Buddhas
Forty-three Paintings (43): Vajravali
Fifty-one Paintings (51): Medicine Buddha & Retinue
Eighty-three Paintings (83): Blue Beryl
Multiple Paintings: Tangtong Gylpo Life Story, Jamgon Ameshab Life-story, Drugpa Kagyu Lineage, Sakya Lamdre Lineage, Vajravali, White Beryl, History of Tibet, Collection of All Tantras
  
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