Artists Index Page

Subjects, Topics & Types:
- Description (below)
- Scrollwork Paintings: #8308, #8309
- Nyentog Monastery, Amdo
- One Hundred Jataka Stories
- Rebkong Town, Amdo
- Masterworks
- Confusions
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Videos:
- Garu Pandita
- Garu Pandita Update (HAR on Patreon [7 min.])

Garu Pandita Lobzang Sherab (d.1764) was both a religious teacher and artist associated with the town of Rebkong in Amdo and specifically with the Nyentog Monastery. A single chapel in the monastery contains murals on three walls and the ceiling attributed to Garu Pandita. A number of scrollwork paintings in the Rebkong area and the Rubin Museum of Art have also been attributed to the artist who flourished in the 18th century.

Jeff Watt 1-2019 [updated 4-2026]

Shakyamuni Buddha
Shakyamuni

Worldly Protector (Buddhist)
Dorje Legpa

Yama Dharmaraja (Buddhist Protector)
Outer

Teacher (Lama)
(unidentified, male, monastic)

Shakyamuni Buddha
Shakyamuni

Manjushri (Bodhisattva & Buddhist Deity)
Bodhisattva

Maitreya (Bodhisattva & Buddhist Deity)
Bodhisattva

Arhat/Sthavira (Buddhist Elder)
(multiple figures)

Arhat/Sthavira (Buddhist Elder)
(multiple figures)

Shakyamuni Buddha
with Sixteen Elders (Arhats)

Shakyamuni Buddha
Jataka (previous lives)

Shakyamuni Buddha
Jataka (previous lives)