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The Sculpture Portraits Page has been updated with additional images.

A page for the teacher Sengge Gyaltsen has been added to the HAR database.

The Portraits of the Masters Collection has been added to the HAR database.

Bonhams on HAR, March 2017, auction images have been added for both painting and sculpture.

A page for the Nyingma meditational deity Mahottara Heruka with Nine Faces has been added and linked accordingly.

The Six-armed Mahakala Page has been updated with additional images. There are many different types of six-armed Mahakala (Shadbhuja). Granted most paintings and sculpture depict the Shangpa Kagyu form of six-armed Mahakala, but there are others which are based on different Tantric literature and are passed down through different Indian and Tibetan lineages.

The Sonam Gyatso Page has been updated with additional images.

The Pabongka Style Gelug Refuge Field Page has been updated with additional images.

The Gelug Refuge Field Page with the central image as a Tsongkapa has been updated with additional images.

The Ngari Panchen Yontan Terdzo page with depictions of Padmasambhava has been updated with additional images.

The Unidentified Karmapa Figures Page has been updated.

A page depicting Rangjung Dorje, the 3rd Karmapa, with his Face on the Moon has been added.

The Konchog Bang Page has been updated with additional images. Gyalpo Konchog Bang is regarded, according to the Kadam Legbam text, as a pre-incarnation of Dromton Gyalwa'i Jungne. The Kadam Legbam itself was put into its final form by Chim Namkha Drag in the late 13th century. It is basically a series of stories said to be the episodes and narratives of the previous lives of Dromton as spoken and taught by Jowo Atisha.

The Hayagriva (Very Secret) Page has been updated with additional images.

A page depicting figurative sculpture wearing a Meditation Belt has been added and linked to the Monastic and Lay Appearance Pages.

A page depicting figurative sculpture wearing Monastic Shirts with Square Shoulder Edges has been added and linked to the Monastic Appearance Main Page.

The Crowned Buddha Page has been updated with additional images.

Christies on HAR, March 2017, auction images have been added for both painting and sculpture.

The Shri Lakshmi (Pal Lhamo) Page has been updated with additional images.

A page depicting Black Stone Masterworks has been added.