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The Manjushri Life Story Painting Sets Page has been updated with additional images and links.

The Manjushri Main Page has been updated with additional images, content and re-structuring. The two divisions of Manjushri, non-iconic and iconic, have been clearly separated and linked by examples.

The Shanglon Dorje Dudul Main Page has been updated with additional images.
Shanglon Dorje Dudul is the special protector of the Tibetan Medical Tradition, lineage and texts. There are two main forms of Shanglon. The first is a [1] seated wrathful figure that has three classes of forms: Outer, Inner and Secret. The second of the main forms is associated with the [2] Yutog Nyingtig and is a wrathful Mahakala-like deity that rides atop a horse and has a retinue of eight deities.

The Nageshvara Buddha Main Page has been updated with additional images.

A gallery page has been added for Deities Wearing Boots.

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

The Milarepa Main Page has been updated with additional images.

A page for Himalayan Art Number Sets has been added and linked to the appropriate corresponding pages.

A gallery page for Repeated Figures Composition (Red Ground) has been added.

A gallery page for Repeated Figures Composition (Gold Ground) has been added.

A gallery page of Aphorisms for Iconography has been added. Some of these aphorisms are obvious while others are a little obscure.

A gallery page for Non-standard Forms of Lokeshvara has been added. Avalokiteshvara can take on many different forms as well as forms of other deities. The most non-standard of these forms are when he assumes the appearance of other unrelated deities.

The Hidden Images Page has been updated with additional images.

The Repeated Figures Main Page has been updated with additional images.

Repeated images surrounding a central figure are common in Himalayan and Tibetan art. The images of paintings found on this page are only a selection from some of the larger museum collections on the HAR website. The majority of such paintings are late productions, post 17th century. These paintings do however create some confusion when looking at earlier, pre-17th century, paintings which principally employ the use of registers. A confusion over dating can arise when thinking that all paintings with registers are early and all paintings with floating figures and landscape are late

The Tonpa Shenrab Life Story Painting Sets Page has been updated with additional images and links.

A painting set depicting a large central figure in each composition with at least six of the Eighty-four Mahasiddhas per composition. In working out the numbers of mahasiddhas and the number of compositions then this should be a fifteen painting set. Five of the compositions depict the Five Forms of Tsongkapa. The Milarepa figure at the center of the second painting indicates that it is most likely that the other compositions would depict a selection of famous Tibetan religious teachers.

The Bon Religion Field of Accumulation Page has been updated with additional images.

The Bon Religion Main Page has been updated and re-organized with additional links and galleries.

The Buddhist Iconography Main Page has been updated.

The Surya, God of the Sun Page, has been updated with additional images.