Himalayan Art Resources

Painting Set: Milarepa Life-story (Set 4, Stockholm)

Milarepa Life Story Paintings & Sets

There are four known sets of paintings following this unique composition of nineteen paintings (19). The images below are the complete set of nineteen compositions from Stockholm, Sweden (acquired in Beijing in 1930). A second complete set is known to exist in Ladakh, India. A single first painting belonging to a third set of nineteen paintings is also known. (From the two incomplete sets of paintings a total of 34 compositions are unaccounted for).

Video Book Review: The Cotton-Clad Mila, The Tibetan Poet-Saint's Life in Pictures

Similar Painting Sets:
- Set 4, Chamdo/Lhatog (below)
- Set 5, Chamdo/Lhatog
- Set 6 (Ladakh)
- Others...

Jeff Watt [updated 3-2020]


Bibliography:

The Cotton-Clad Mila, The Tibetan Poet-Saint's Life in Pictures by Toni Schmid. Statens Etnografiska Museum. Stockholm, 1952. VIII. Ethnography 5. Reports from the scientific expedition to the North-Western provinces of China under the leadership of Dr. Sven Hedin. The Sino-Swedish Expedition. Publication 36.