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The Pagpa Lokeshvara Sculpture Page has been updated with additional images.

The Sakya Pandita Main Page has been updated with additional content.

A Dombi Heruka Masterworks Gallery has been added to the Masterworks Main Page.

A gallery for White Tara and the Six Pavilions of Light has been added. Many traditions of White Tara employ the six pavilions of light however they are not usually depicted in paintings. The two examples shown here follow the Dzongsar Monastery painting style which is similar to, but more decorative than, the Palpung Monastery style.

A page has been added for White Tara in a simple composition following the Palpung style of painting. Situ Panchen records in his autobiography that he sometimes made compositions of White Tara to give away as gifts. It is not known if any of these examples were drawn by Chokyi Jungne himself.

The Situ Panchen Painting Commissions Page has been updated with additional links.

A gallery for the goddess Siddha Lakshmi has been added to the Masterworks Main Page.

There are a handful of deities and figures that are depicted either inside of, or in front of, a mountain cave. For the deities the cave has a special relationship based on the ritual literature. For the other figures it relates to a narrative or historical event.

A page has been created to highlight the relationship of Deities and Stupas. There are a handful of Buddhas and deities that are depicted seated either inside or in front of a stupa. In some cases the stupa is the special attribute for the Buddha or deity, or it relates to a unique situation, narrative or historical event.

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.