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Subjects, Topis & Types:
- Yongle Sthavira Painting Style Explanation (below)
- Yongle Style Painting
- Lion Element (Yongle)
- Masterworks
- Confusions: Karma Gar-ri Style
- Others...

List of Painting Sets:
- Arhat/Sthavira (Yongle Style 1)
- Arhat/Sthavira (Palace Museum)
- Arhat/Sthavira (Yonghegong)
- Arhat Set (Tibet House)
- Arhats (Tibetan Painted Scrolls)
- Arhat Set I
- Arhat Set VIII (Brooklyn)
- Arhat Set XI
- Arhat Set XXXI
- Arhat Set XXXIII
- Others...

The Karma Gar-ri tradition of painting are best known for copying the background landscape of the Yongle style of the early 15th century and replacing the figures with the Karma Kagyu lineage teachers of the Mahamudra Golden Garland (see examples).

Jeff Watt 12-2015

Arhat/Sthavira (Buddhist Elder)
16 Elders: Kalika

Arhat/Sthavira (Buddhist Elder)
16 Elders: Chudapantaka

Arhat/Sthavira (Buddhist Elder)
16 Elders: Rahula

Arhat/Sthavira (Buddhist Elder)
16 Elders: Abheda

Arhat/Sthavira (Buddhist Elder)
16 Elders: Pindola Bharadvaja

Arhat/Sthavira (Buddhist Elder)

Arhat/Sthavira (Buddhist Elder)
16 Elders: Kanakavatsa

Arhat/Sthavira (Buddhist Elder)
16 Elders: Rahula

Arhat/Sthavira (Buddhist Elder)
(multiple figures)

Arhat/Sthavira (Buddhist Elder)
16 Elders: Chudapantaka

Arhat/Sthavira (Buddhist Elder)
16 Elders: Pantaka

Arhat/Sthavira (Buddhist Elder)
16 Elders: Kanakavatsa