Subject: Shield, Chinese
Seven Jewels of Royal PowerSubjects, Topics & Types:
- Description
- Chinese Shield (below)
--- Early Shield: HAR #30941
- Tibetan Shield
- Seven Jewels of Royal Power
- Confusions: HAR #205205
- Others...
Video: Chinese Shield
There are only two principal figures in Tibetan Buddhist art that carry a shield as a standard hand attribute. The two figures are the General from the group known as the Seven Jewels of Royal Power and Bijakundalin from the group of Eight Horsemen accompanying Vaishravana Riding a Lion. The Chinese shield is generally decorated with the face of a ferocious creature or a tiger. There are differences between how a Chinese shield and a Tibetan shield are depicted in art. The Tibetan shield is decorated with concentric circles or an abstract circular image but never a face of an animal or creature.
Tibetan deities classified iconographically as Warrior such as Dralha and worldly deities typically depicted as marshal or military do not carry a shield.
Jeff Watt 7-2026
(The images below are a selection of examples from the links above).
