Shadbhuja Mahakala Painting Set
In the painting collection of the Royal Ontario Museum there is a black ground composition depicting Shadbhuja Mahakala. It was generally believed that this painting was created as a single composition. Recently another painting by the same artist, also depicting a variant and less well known form of Shadbhuja, was identified. It is very likely that these two compositions were created as a set, or a series of compositions, depicting each of the seven main forms of Shadbhuja Mahakala. The iconographic descriptions for these two works is based on the writings of Kedrub Geleg Pal Zangpo, one of the foremost students of Lama Tsongkapa. Tsongkapa is depicted at the top left of both works and Kedrub is depicted at the top right.