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Dharmadhatu Vagishvara (Tib.: ngag gi wang chug, chi ying dor je): white in colour with four faces and eight hands.

"White Dharmadhatu Vagishvara, with four white faces, eight hands, the first two in the Dharma teaching gesture. The three lower right hold a sword, arrow and vajra. The three lower left, a Prajnaparamita book, bow and bell. With the same ornaments and garments. Seated in the vajrasana [posture]." (Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557).

Tibet

1600 - 1699

Sakya, Ngor (Sakya) and Buddhist Lineages

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Private

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Tibet

1600 - 1699

Sakya, Ngor (Sakya) and Buddhist Lineages

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Barbara and Walter Frey

Arya Janguli (Tib.: pag pa dug sel ma).

"Arya Janguli, yellow, with three faces. Having a hood of seven snake heads. [Each face] possessing three eyes and the faces [both] smiling and fierce. The six right hands hold, a vajra, sword and an arrow in a dancing manner. The left, a wrathful [gesture] together with a lasso, a blue poisonous flower and a bow. Adorned with flowers and snakes. Standing in a dancing manner." (Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557).

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Krishna Yamari (Tib.: shin je she nag po. English: the Black Killer of Death)).

"Krishna Yamari has one face and two hands. The right holds aloft a blue stick marked with a vajra and the left, a wrathful [gesture] together with a lasso held to the heart, with the same ornaments and appearance as before. Standing above a red buffalo in a manner with the left leg extended." (Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557).

Bhutan

1500 - 1599

Sakya, Ngor (Sakya) and Buddhist Lineages

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Private

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Tibet

1500 - 1599

Sakya, Ngor (Sakya) and Buddhist Lineages

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Private

Krishna Yamari (Tib.: shin je she nag po. Eng.: the Black Killer of Death).

"He is the same as all the other [previous Yamaris], with three faces and six hands, the body and main face are blue, the right white and the left red. With six hands, the three right hold, a wheel, sword and staff, the three left, a body impaled on a strong vetali tree, vajra and noose." (Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557).

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Tibet

1500 - 1599

Sakya, Ngor (Sakya) and Buddhist Lineages

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Private

Krishna Yamari (Tib.: shin je she nag po. English: the Black Killer of Death).

"Yamari has a body black in colour, six faces and six hands. The main face and one above it are black. The right face and one above it are white. The left face and one above it are red. The first two hands hold a vajra and bell crossed at the heart. The middle two hold a skullcup and lasso. The last two hold a sword and staff. Standing with the front two legs in the vajrasana [posture], the middle two have the right bent and the left straight [and] the last two have the left bent and the right straight. The hair, eyebrows and beard are orange and flowing upwards, with a crown of five dry skulls and a necklace of fifty fresh [skulls]. Adorned with snake and jewel ornaments. Having a tiger skin as a lower garment." (Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557).

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Tibet

1600 - 1699

Sakya, Ngor (Sakya) and Buddhist Lineages

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Private

Avalokiteshvara, Vajradharma (Tib.: chen re zi, dor je cho): red with one face and two hands.

"Vajradharma has one face and two hands; the two are performing the gesture of meditative equipoise and holding above the stem of a lotus, with the same ornaments, appearance and garments as the others." (One Hundred Methods of Accomplishment, Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557).

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Tibet

1600 - 1699

Sakya, Ngor (Sakya) and Buddhist Lineages

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Barbara and Walter Frey

Mahachinakrama Tara (Tib.: gya nag gi rim pa drol ma).

"Tara, black, [with] one face and four hands. The first two [hands] hold a curved knife and skullcup. The lower right a sword and the lower left an utpala. [With] three eyes and bared fangs, brown hair bristling upwards, swelling breasts and a belly hanging down. Having a lower garment of tiger skin and adorned with skulls and snakes. Standing on a corpse seat in a manner with the left leg extended." (One Hundred Methods of Accomplishment, Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557).

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Bhutan

1800 - 1899

Buddhist Lineage

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

Vajra Humkara (Tib.: dor je hung dze).

"Humkara, black [with] one face and two hands. Holding a vajra and bell to the heart in his own gesture. Having slightly bared fangs and three eyes. Yellow hair bristling upwards. Adorned with jewels and snakes. Having a lower garment of tiger skin. Standing in a manner with the left leg extended subduing Bhairava." (Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557).

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Janguli, Shyama Chaturbhuja (Tib.: dug sel ma jang ku chag shi pa. English: the Green Remover of Poison with Four hands).

"Arya Janguli with a body green in colour, one face and four hands. The right two [hold] a trident and peacock feathers. The left two [hold] a snake and extended in a [gesture] of fearlessness. Seven snake heads hover above; together with snake necklaces, earrings, etc. Seated in sattvasana posture." (Thartse Panchen Namka Chime, 1756-1820). (See full painting #89181).

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Tibet

1600 - 1699

Sakya, Ngor (Sakya) and Buddhist Lineages

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Private

Ekajati, with Twelve Faces and Twenty-four Hands (Tib.: ral chig ma shal chu nyi chag nyi shu tsa shi. Eng.: One Braid).

"Goddess Ekajati, blue-black in colour, twelve faces, with the main face black. For the five right faces the first is white, second yellow, third green, fourth red, and fifth smoky-coloured. For the five left faces the first is red, second white, third yellow, fourth green, and fifth red-white. The upper face is smoky-coloured. With bared fangs and the brow gathered in a frown each face has three round red eyes. For the twenty-four hands the right hold a sword, vajra, wheel, jeweled throne, hook, arrow, spear, hammer, pestle, curved knife, hand-drum, and prayer beads. In the left are a bow, lasso, wrathful gesture, pennant, stick, trident, alcohol cup, lily, bell, axe, head of Brahma, and a skullcup. The single plait of brownish-yellow hair flows upward; adorned with five dry skulls, a necklace of fifty fresh heads, the six ornaments and snakes, terrifying with a radiant face and flickering tongue, fearsome and ugly, short with a distended belly, large raised breasts, wearing a tiger skin lower garment, the eight great snakes as ornaments, youthful and marvelous. The left leg is extended standing on a corpse seat." (Thartse Panchen Namka Chime, 1756-1820).

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Tibet

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Collection of Katimari Collection

Bhurkumkuta, Krodha Raja (Tibetan: me wa tseg pa, tro wo gyal po). A meditational deity specifically employed in the eradication of sickness and disease.

"...Krodha Bhurkumkuta, with a body smoky in colour, three faces and six hands. The right face is white, left red, the main face is smoky. Each [face] possesses three eyes, four bared fangs and a fierce frown. Orange eyebrows and a moustache blaze upward, with brown-black hair flowing upward entwined with a blue-black snake with a yellow belly; and having a crown of five dry skulls. The first right hand holds a visvavajra, the second, a five pointed vajra, third, a vajra hook. The first left holds a vajra stick, second, a vajra lasso, the third performs a vajra wrathful gesture, and all of those are raised upward; [adorned with] a garland of dry skulls as a necklace. All the limbs are adorned with snakes; and wearing a lower garment of tiger skin. The two legs are in a wide stance, above a lotus and sun, standing in the middle of a blazing fire of pristine awareness arising from the body." (Chatral Kunga Lhundrup).

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Bhutan

1800 - 1899

Buddhist Lineage

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

Arya Bhrikuti (Tib.: pag pa tro nyer chen ma).

Bhrikuti, [with] a body yellow in colour, one face and four hands. The right [two hold the gesture of] supreme generosity and a garland. The left, a stick and water pot. Wearing the hair as a crown. Slightly wrathful and [slightly] peaceful. Seated in the vajrasattva asana [posture]. (Konchog Lhindrub, 1497-1557)

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Chunda.

"Chunda, white [with] one face and four hands. The first right [hand is in the gesture of] supreme generosity. The first left [holds] a white lotus with the Prajnaparamita book above it. The lower two hold a begging bowl above clasped [hands]. Having jewel ornaments and silk garments. Seated with the feet in the vajrasana [posture]." (Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557).

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Bhutan

1800 - 1899

Buddhist and Drukpa (Kagyu, Bhutan) Lineages

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

Ekajati: blue in colour with one face and two hands.

"Ekajati, black in colour, with one face and two hands. The right [hand] holds a curved knife and the left a blood filled skullcup to the heart, above and below, (etc., the same as earlier [HAR 59704])." (Thartse Panchen Namka Chime, 1756-1820).