Item: Samantabhadra Buddha

Tibetan: ཀུན་ཏུ་བཟང་པོ། སངས་རྒྱས། Chinese: 普贤佛

(item no. 82004)

Origin Location	Bhutan
Date Range	1800 - 1899
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment
Collection	Francoise Pommaret - photographs

Classification: Deity

Interpretation / Description

Samanatabhadra (Tibetan: kun tu zang po. English: All Good) with consort. The primordial Buddha of the Nyingma School, surrounded by peaceful and wrathful deities.

Sanskrit: Samantabhadra Tibetan: Kun tu zang po

"Primordial Lord of unchanging light,
Central origin of all mandalas,
Possessing the ocean of knowledge and pristine awareness;
Homage to Samantabhadra Father-Mother!" (Nyingma liturgical verse).

Jeff Watt 11-2000