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A gallery page for the meditational deity Marichi in a Stupa has been added.

The Eight Great Stupas page has been updated with images and additional links.

A gallery for the Kadampa Style Stupa has been created and linked to the Stupa Main Page.

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

A separate gallery for the Red Tara of Dzigar Terton Dragpo Tsal (1740-1798) has been added.

A Red Tara Gallery containing all types and systems of the red forms of Tara has been added and linked to the main Tara pages.

The Ithyphallic Deities Main Page has been updated with additional images.

The Densatil Sculpture Page has been updated with additional images.

The Changkya Rolpai Dorje Main Page has been updated with additional images and links.

A gallery page describing the black hats of the Tai Situpa has been added with text and images.

The gallery of Cityscapes and Monastery Paintings has been updated with additional images.

A gallery for the Krishna Yamari of the Drigung Kagyu Tradition has been added.

The Footprints & Handprints Page has been updated with additional links and images.

The collection of paintings belonging to the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, has been added to the HAR site. The collection includes three masterworks.

The Ushnishavijaya Masterworks Page has been updated. See the Masterworks Main Page.

The Medicine Buddha Masterworks Page has been updated. See the Masterworks Main Page.

The Eye Clearing Avalokiteshvara Main Page has been updated with additional images.

Although originally a Nyingma practice found in Southern Tibet, the Eye Clearing Avalokiteshvara has grown immensely in popularity in Mongolia. One of the largest images in the Ganden Monastery, Ulan Bator, is this Eye Clearing form of the deity. It is possible that the 8th Jetsun Dampa is principally responsible for the 20th century popularity.

A gallery for the indigenous Tibetan god Chingkarwa has been added. Genyen Chingkarwa is almost exclusively found depicted in Gelug tradition paintings.

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

The practice of Lha Chenpo (Mahadeva), in this and similar forms, is a Revealed Treasure teaching (Tibetan: Terma) unique to the Nyingma Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. It was especially popularized through the Mindrolling tradition of the Nyingma. Sometimes Lha Chenpo can be found as a minor figure in paintings of Jinasagara Lokeshvara. There are a number of different forms of Lha Chenpo relating to the 'Terma' tradition plus other unrelated forms of Shiva found in the various levels of Tantra and other Indian and Tibetan Buddhist traditions.

A gallery for the mountain god Machen Pomra of the Bon religion has been added.