Item: Indian Teacher - Vasubandhu

Tibetan: རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་མཁས་པ། མཁན་ཆེན། Chinese: 印度的祖师

(item no. 928)

Origin Location	Tibet
Date Range	1700 - 1799
Lineages	Buddhist
Size	66.04x50.80cm (26x20in)
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Collection	Rubin Museum of Art
Catalogue #	acc.# P1999.33.5

Classification: Person

Appearance: Monastic

Gender: Male

TBRC: bdr:P6119

Interpretation / Description

Vasubhandu with two students; Vimuktasena at the bottom right and Sthiramati at the bottom left holding a book upraised in the right hand. (See Six Ornaments Outline page).

Jeff Watt 12-2003

Front of Painting
Wylie Transliteration of Inscription: Bottom left: ... bstan. Center: dbyig gnyan la na mo. Bottom right: 'phags pa grol sde.