Himalayan Art Resources

Item: Shakyamuni Buddha

ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ། 释迦牟尼佛
(item no. 1074)
Origin Location Tibet
Date Range 1800 - 1899
Lineages Buddhist
Material Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Collection Rubin Museum of Art
Notes about the Central Figure

Classification: Person

Interpretation / Description

Shakyamuni Buddha. (This drawing is on the back of a Padamsambhava painting, #1003).

Sanskrit and Tibetan Names: Gyan Drug Chog Nyi (rgyan drug mchog g.nyis) 1. Nagarjuna (slob dpon klu sgrub) 2. Aryadeva ('phags pa arya de va) 3. Asanga ('phags pa thogs med) 4. Vasubhandu (slob dpon dbyig g.nyen) 5. Dignaga (slob dpon phyogs glang) 6. Dharmakirti (slob dpon chos grags) 7. Gunaprabha (slob dpon yon tan 'od) 8. Shakyaprabha (slob dpon shakya 'od)


Numbered Image:
1. Shakyamuni Buddha
2. Maitreya
3. Manjushri
4. Nagarjuna
5. Asanga
6. Vasubhandu
7. Aryadeva
8. Dignaga
9. Dharmakirti
10. Gunaprabha
11. Shakyaprabha
A. Offering Goddess
B. Offering Goddess

Secondary Images
Related Items
Thematic Sets
Shakyamuni Buddha: Main Page
Collection of Rubin Museum of Art: Painting Gallery 9
Subject: Drawings & Illuminations Main Page
Subject: Six Ornaments of the Southern Continent Main Page
Indian Scholar: Dharmakirti