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Tibetan Worldly Protectors in Art Prior to the 17th Century

The images in this gallery each contain, as a secondary figure, a Tibetan Worldly Protector. A single image is of Tseringma, local protector of Shalu Monastery, in a standing posture, wearing peacock feathers. This image is a detail belonging to a mural located in the Lokeshvara chapel accessed from the ground floor circumambulatory of Shalu.


The other secondary images in the gallery depict Tashi Tseringma riding a lion and Damchen Garwa Nagpo riding a goat.