Painting Set: Six Ornaments (Qianlong)

Six Ornaments Art Sets

Subjects, Topics & Types:
- Description (below)
- Six Ornaments Page
- Qianlong Kangyur
- Confusions
- Others...

The Six Ornaments and Two Excellent Ones of the Southern Continent is the name given to the group of the most important Indian Buddhist scholars of the Mahayana Tradition - according to a Tibetan Buddhist assessment. The images below are from a Kangyur collection of Buddhist texts commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor of China (1711-1799).

Identification Key: HAR #1074: HAR drawing #1074 is a very good key for identifying the Six Ornaments and Two Excellent Ones along with their close disciples accompanied by Tibetan inscriptions.

Videos:
- Six Ornaments & Two Excellent Ones
- Monastics: Three Visual Types
- Patchwork Robes: Part 1
- Patchwork Robes: Part 2

Sanskrit and Tibetan Names:
Gyan Drug Chog Nyi (rgyan drug mchog g.nyis)
1. Nagarjuna (slob dpon klu sgrub)
2. Aryadeva ('phags pa arya de va)
3. Asanga ('phags pa thogs med)
4. Vasubhandu (slob dpon dbyig g.nyen)
5. Dignaga (slob dpon phyogs glang)
6. Dharmakirti (slob dpon chos grags)
7. Gunaprabha (slob dpon yon tan 'od)
8. Shakyaprabha (slob dpon shakya 'od)

Jeff Watt 8-2026