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Taglung Tangpa Chenpo, Tashi Pal (1142-1210): founder of Taglung Monastery (1180), central Tibet - north of Lhasa, the head monastery for the Taglungpa sub-lineage of the Kagyu School.

Handsome with black hair, a slight moustache and goatee, he sits facing forward with the eyes slightly lowered. The two hands perform the mudra (gesture) of teaching, held at the heart with the 8 fingers splayed in similitude of an 8 spoked Dharma wheel. Wearing the red robes of a monk and an outer meditation cloak orange in colour, the two legs are crossed in vajra posture, right over left, with the soles of the feet marked with small golden Dharma wheels. The head is circled by an elaborate orange aureola and a blue nimbus frames the body as he sits atop a multi-coloured lotus and ornate throne. Below that is a temple courtyard scene with three gold stupas at the left, two seated monks and buildings with three faces peering out from the windows.

At the top center is Pagmodrupa Dorje Gyalpo (1110-1170) the teacher of Taglung Tangpa Chenpo.

At the top left, from right to left, are Buddha Vajradhara, Tilopa and Naropa. At the top right, from left to right, are Marpa Chokyi Lodro, Milarepa and an unidentified Lama (possibly Karmapa Dusum Khyenpa).

Descending at the left are the Direction Guardian Virudhaka, Buddha Shakyamuni surrounded by four students, Sahaja Chakrasamvara, an unidentified lama wearing a yellow hat, and the Direction Guardian Dhritarashtra.

Descending at the right are the Direction Guardian Virupaksha, Chaturbhuja Avalokiteshvara, Vajravarahi, an unidentified lama with a yellow hat, and the Direction Guardian Vaishravana.

Along the bottom, from left to right, is the donor figure wearing monastic robes and seated before an assortment of offerings. Continuing from the left is Vajrapani, Chaturbhuja Mahakala with four hands, Aparajita, Artasiddhi Vajravarahi with four hands, Kurukulle with four hands and the Two-faced Vajravarahi.


(For additional information on painting style and art history see Notes on a Taglung Portrait by Jane Casey Singer).

Central Tibet

1300 - 1399

Taklung (Kagyu) and Kagyu Lineages

49.86x38.10cm (19.63x15in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of The Brooklyn Museum of Art

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Palden Tsultrim (1330-1399). A Lama of the Lamdre lineage and a principal teacher to the famous Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo, founder of the Ngor sub-school of Sakya.

At the top center is the primordial Buddha Vajradhara. The surrounding figures at the top and sides are the lineal teachers of the Vajra Ghantapa lineage of the deity Chakrasamvara and related Tantric texts. Along the bottom are various forms of Manjushri, Amitayus and White Tara. (The 2 paintings of the Brooklyn collection belong to a much larger and well known set of Lamdre Lineage paintings).

Tibet

1600 - 1699

Sakya and Ngor (Sakya) Lineages

77.77x65.07cm (30.62x25.62in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Ngor Painting School

Collection of The Brooklyn Museum of Art

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Lama Tsongkapa (1357-1419): founder of the Gelugpa School, surrounded by various biographical scenes, with the Buddha Akshobhya, blue in colour, above at the top center.

Tibet

1800 - 1899

Gelug Lineage

62.87x42.55cm (24.75x16.75in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of The Brooklyn Museum of Art

肃火斤

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Amitabha, Buddha (Tibetan: o pa me, sang gye. English: the Enlightened One of Immeasurable Light) seated in the pureland of Sukhavati contained within a rainbow sphere. Seated at the top center are the Five Transcendent Buddhas: Vairochana, Akshobhya, Amitabha, Ratnasambhava and Amoghasiddhi. Seated at the sides of the central figure are the 8 great Bodhisattvas. Various other buddhas, bodhisattvas and offering figures fill the landscape.

Tibet

1800 - 1899

Gelug Lineage

95.25x65.02cm (37.50x25.60in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of The Brooklyn Museum of Art

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Sitatapatra, Vajra Ushnisha (Tibetan: do rje tsug tor dug kar mo. English: The White Parasol One of the Vajra Crown Protuberance [of the Buddha]).

White in colour with 1000 faces, 1000 hands, 1000 legs and 10,100,000 (ten million one hundred thousand) eyes. The main face in front is white with 199 white faces above, to the left is a vertical row of yellow faces, to the right is a vertical row of green faces, on both sides are red faces and on top of those are 200 more blue faces. Each face has three eyes and each set of coloured faces displays a different expression. In the first pair of hands the right holds a Dharma Wheel in the Refuge Giving mudra (gesture) and the left holds an arrow together with the handle of a parasol, held to the heart, unfurled above on the right side. She is adorned with various jewel ornaments and wears upper and lower silk garments of assorted colours.

A further 99 pairs of hands hold in the right a Dharma Wheel and an arrow in the left. The remaining 400 hands on the right hold a vajra, jewel, lotus and visvavajra (double vajra), 100 of each object. The remaining 400 hands on the left hold a bow, sword, lasso and hook, again 100 of each object. The 500 legs on the left side are extended above worldly deities and a host of animals and the legs on the right are bent and press down on all worldly troubles, daemons and animals. All the limbs and parts of her body are covered with large staring eyes. She stands upon innummerable sentient beings atop a multicoloured lotus seat and is completely surrounded by the flames of pristine awareness.

Along the top are the 7 Buddhas of this age and at the bottom are the Three Mahakalas (Tib.: gon po che sum), brothers, and identical in appearance

Tibet

1700 - 1799

144.78x94.62cm (57x37.25in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of The Brooklyn Museum of Art