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Database Search: All Gelug Refuge Field Paintings
Five General Gelug Composition Types:
(1) Shakyamuni 'A', Shakyamuni 'B' (2) Tsongkapa (3) Pabongka Design (4) Lotus Support (5) Block Print Image
Three Miscellaneous Types:
(6) Chinese Emperor (7) One Thousand Buddhas of the Age (8) Custom Subject Fields
Aside from those five general types of Gelug Refuge Fields there are also three miscellaneous types. The first of the miscellaneous types (1) are depictions of the Qianglong Emperor of China portrayed either as a royal figure, or as a monastic. He is pictured at the center of a painted composition, surrounded by the religious figures, deities and protectors typical of the Gelug Tradition. The second (2) is an unusual subject, not completely understood, but likely to be, a set of seven paintings drawn in the composition of a refuge field painting (with a tree as the support). The central subject of each of the paintings is a single buddha surrounded by the One Thousand Buddhas of the Age. A third type of Refuge Field is the Custom Subject Field where any Lama, buddha or deity is placed at the center.
