Teacher: Milarepa (Life Story Paintings & Sets)
Milarepa Religious ContextSubjects, Topics & Types:
- Description (below)
- Masterworks
- Single Composition
- Two Similar Paintings
- Illuminations (Central Tibet)
- Painting Sets (below)
- Confusions
- Others...
Videos:
- Milarepa: Yogi of Tibet
- Milarepa Painting Composition Subjects
- Milarepa: Life Story Paintings
- Milarepa-Like Figures in Art
- The Cotton-Clad Mila, The Tibetan Poet-Saint's Life in Pictures (Book Review)
Painting Sets:
- Set 1 (Chamdo)
- Set 2 (Kham)
- Set 3 (Chamdo)
- Set 4 (Chamdo/Lhatog)
- Set 5 (Chamdo/Lhatog)
- Set 6 (Ladakh following the Chamdo/Lhatog composition)
- Set 7 (Kham)
- Set 8 (Kham)
- Set 9 (Palpung style)
- Set 10 (Chamdo)
- Set 11 (Mongolia)
- Set 12 (Chamdo)
- Drugpa Kagyu Sets
- Others...
Painting Sets Comparison:
- Sets 4, 5 & 6
The images below are from many different Milarepa painting sets. It is not known how many paintings in total would be in any given set. The Stockholm set, one of only two complete sets known to exist, is a set of 19 paintings.
Jeff Watt [updated 3-2020, 1-2024]
(The images below are only a selection of examples from the links above).
