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The Tibetan Kings Main Page has been updated with additional images.

The Vajra & Bell Main Page has been updated with additional images.

The Kila (Peg) Main Page has been updated with additional images.

A set of small cards depicting early Kagyu teachers, in gold on a red background, has been added.

The Sixteen Elders (Arhats) Travelling to China has been updated with additional images.

The 7th Dalai Lama Secret Biography has been updated with additional images.

These two 13th century paintings are early examples of copying a composition. They are not facsimiles because they are not exactly the same in specific figural proportion and colour. They are however exact in the iconographic subject, number of figures and their arrangement and placement in the composition. Similar early copies can be seen with Taglung style paintings of early teachers such as Pagmodrubpa.

The Crowned Buddha Page has been updated with additional images.

The Padmasambhava Main Page has been updated with additional images of both paintings and sculpture. Many of the paintings belong to sets which have not yet been organized and cross referenced across different collections.

The Red Ground Painting Page has been updated with additional images.

The Rubin Museum of Art has one of the finest collections of Himalayan Art found anywhere in the world. In both North America and Europe there are only a handful of museums with the same quality and breadth as the Rubin Museum. The Rubin Museum is also the most documented and published collection of Himalayan art among all of the museum and private collections anywhere. The Himalayan Art Resources website celebrates their ten year anniversary.

The Trehor Namkha Gyan Main Page has been updated with additional images.

A set of sculpture depicting the Eight Forms of Padmasambhava has been added.

The Densatil Monastery Sculpture Page has been further updated with additional images.

The Kurukulla Main Page has been updated with additional images.

A gallery for a Textile Scroll Set has been added. Currently there are only two known examples of works from this set.

The Yongle Textile Workshop Page has been updated with additional images, links and content.

The sculpture in this gallery appear to have been made in the same Tibetan workshop at roughly the same time. The style of the sculpture in general follows that of Tsang Province where incising is popular and gilding less common. Note the similarities in the shape and structure of the faces, ornamentation, and double lotus base.

A gallery of Mandala Set Figures from three different commissions. The central subjects of the mandala sets are currently unidentified.

The Padampa Sanggye Main Page has been updated with additional images, text and links.