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Subjects, Topics & Types:
- Description
- Identification Key: HAR #1074
- Six Ornaments Single Composition
- Palpung Two Figure Composition
- Seventeen Scholars of Nalanda
- Copies: Set Copies 1
- Masterworks
- Confusions
- Others...

Videos:
- Asanga
- HAR #358
- Six Ornaments and Two Excellent Ones
- Monastics: Three Visual Types
- Patchwork Robes: Part 1
- Patchwork Robes: Part 2

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HAR drawing #1074 is a very good key for identifying the Six Ornaments and Two Excellent Ones along with their close disciples.

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 2-2019