Himalayan Art Resources

Item: Teacher (Lama) - (multiple figures)

བླ་མ། 喇嘛
(item no. 11178)
Origin Location Central Tibet
Date Range 1500 - 1599
Lineages Sakya, Ngor (Sakya) and Buddhist
Material Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Collection Private
Notes about the Central Figure

Classification: Person

Interpretation / Description

Nga Rig Panchen Namkha Palzang. At the lower left side is Sharchen Jampa Kunga Tashi. At the lower right side is Jestun Namkha Sanggye.

This composition appears to be from a set of paintings. The surrounding secondary lineage depicts the succession of teachers in the line of Vajrayogini Naro Khechari.

1) ཨོཾ་སརྦ་བིདྱ་སྭ་ཧཱ། ལྔ་རིག་པཎ་ཆེན་ནམ་མཁའ་དཔལ་བཟང་ལ། ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཞིང་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆིའོ། བྱིན་གྱིས་རླབས་ཏུ་གསོལ།

Tbrc P778. Birth: 1532-Death 1602
Primary Name: nam mkha' dpal bzang
Primary Title: ngor mkhan chen 13 nam mkha' dpal bzang
Title: brang ti paN chen nam mkha' dpal bzang
Title: thar rtse nam mkha' dpal bzang
Office Title: ngor mkhan chen 13

2) ཨོཾ་སརྦ་བིདྱ་སྭ་ཧཱ། ཤར་ཆེན་བྱམས་པ་ཀུན་དགའ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་ལ། ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཞིང་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆིའོ། བྱིན་གྱིས་རླབས་ཏུ་གསོལ།

Tbrc P778. Birth 1558-Death 1603
Primary Name: byams pa kun dga' bkra shis
Personal Name: kun dga' bkra shis, shar chen
Primary Title: ngor mkhan chen 14 byams pa kun dga' bkra shis
Title: shar chen byams pa kun dga' bkra shis
Office Title: ngor mkhan chen 14

3) ཨོཾ་སརྦ་བིདྱ་སྭ་ཧཱ། རྗེ་བཙུན་ནམ་མཁའ་སངས་རྒྱས་ལ། ཕྱག་འཚལ་ཞིང་སྐྱབས་སུ་མཆིའོ། བྱིན་གྱིས་རླབས་ཏུ་གསོལ།

Tbrc P778. Birth: 16th Century
Primary Name: nam mkha' sangs rgyas
Personal Name: byams pa nam mkha' sangs rgyas
Primary Title: ngor mkhan chen 17 nam mkha' sangs rgyas
Title: thar rtse dbon nam mkha' sangs rgyas
Title: brang ti nam mkha' sangs rgyas
Office Title: ngor mkhan chen 17

Jeff Watt 5-2018

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