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A gallery for Krodha Kali Masterworks has been added.

The 'Revealed Treasure' cycle of Simhamukha according to the system of Dudul Dorje has been added to the Simhamukha Main Page.

A Chakrasamvara Sculpture Masterworks Page has been added.

The Chakrasamvara Painting Masterworks Page has been updated with addition images.

A gallery for Chakrasamvara in a Densatil Style has been added.

Images of Surgical Instruments have been added. Five of the images are paintings from the various Blue Beryl sets.

A Glossary of Tibetan Medicine has been added. It also contains many Tantric Buddhist references, deities and links.

Five Paintings of almost identical White Tara compositions. It was a popular theme for Situ Panchen to use White Tara when depicting the protection from the eight fears. Typically Green Tara or Lokeshvara are used as the central figure for depicting the eight fears..

The Indian Rishi in Buddhist Art of the Himalayan and Tibetan regions.

A Glossary of Trees in Himalayan Art has been added. More entries and examples will be added.

The Three Trees of the Blue Beryl Charts function as both a detailed outline of the medical text in general as well as a mnemonic device (memory aid) for remembering the order of the chapters and topics.

A Densatil Monastery Chronology Page has been added to the Densatil sculpture section. There are three types of Densatil sculpture created over roughly a three hundred year period: Tashi Gomang Stupa & Sculpture (Densatil Monastery), Other Densatil Sculpture (Densatil Monastery), and Densatil-like Sculpture (Branch & Other Monasteries).

The Stupa Main Page has been updated with additional images and links.

The Vajrayogini Sculpture in a Densatil Monastery style have been grouped together in a unique gallery. There are more examples of the Densatil Vajrayogini which are not as yet on the HAR Website.

The Realm of the Medicine Buddha depicted as the first painting of the Blue Beryl set of compositions has been added as a separate gallery of images on the HAR website.

The scene has the Medicine Buddha at the center of a palace in the middle of a medicinal plant garden. Immediately surrounding the Buddha are Indian gods, rishis and Buddhist monks, including Arya Nagarjuna. These various figures are the legendary and human characters involved with the development and propagation of Indian Aurveda medicine in the 1st millennium of the common era. In the 2nd millennium this transformed again into Tibetan medicine.

The Blue Beryl painting sets main page has been updated with additional images and links.

The Blue Beryl is a 17th century commentary to he 11th century Four Medical Tantras text. The Blue Beryl paintings are a set of 79 educational explanatory compositions created and commissioned by the 3rd Desi Sanggye Gyatso (1653-1705), regent to the 5th Dalai Lama. The first fifteen of the Blue Beryl paintings have a register at the top which presents the four topics of [1] Medicine Buddha, [2] Four Tantras Lineage, [3] Yutog Nyingtig Lineage and the [4] Deities and Protectors of the Yutog Nyingtig. The image here is created by layering the strips of register found at the top of the first fifteen compositions into a single image. The strips have been combined to make it easier to follow the sequence and read the name inscriptions. (Only the first fifteen compositions of the set have a top register).

A masterworks gallery for the 'Black Cloak' Bernagchen Mahakala has been added.

A masterworks gallery for the meditational deity Simhamukha has been added.

A masterworks gallery for the meditational deity and protector Ekajati has been added.