Gold on Black Compositions
Mahottara Heruka
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This powerful thangka of Mahottara Heruka (Tib. Chemchog Heruka), or Mahashriheruka, meaning the 'Great Glorious Heruka', was painted by Chewang Dorje in 2003. Mahottara is the lord or 'unified form' of the eight meditational deities of the Drupa Kagye (Skt....
Karma Kagyu Protector Assembly
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Dominating the centre of this composition are the two principal female and male protector deities of the Karma Kagyu Tradition, who appear together as 'Mahakali and Mahakala in Face to Face Union' (Tib. ma mgon zhal sbyor), with Dorje Bernagchen (rdo rje ber nag can), the...
Troma Nagmo (Gold on Black)
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The dynamic figure of Troma Nagmo (Tib. khros ma nag mo), the 'Wrathful Black Mother' (Skt. Krishna Kali, Krishna Krodhini), dominates the centre of this gold-on-black composition. She is extremely fierce, youthful and nubile like a sixteen-year-old, and black in colour like the...
Yamantaka (Jamphal Trochu)
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This rare gold-on black composition, painted by Chewang Dorje, depicts the assembly of the phurba-bodied deity Yamantaka (Tib. Jampal Trochu) and his retinue, a unique wrathful deity practice of the Drukpa Kagyu School that is not commonly transmitted. Yamantaka Trochu was the main personal...
Nyingma Protectors and Yidam Deities (Dudjom Tersar)
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This gold-on-black thangka depicts an assembly of twelve of the main yidam and important protector deities of the Tibetan Nyingma tradition. The iconographical designs for many of these figures are based on the drawings of an accomplished Sherpa artist and yogin-practitioner named Gomchen...
Shing Kyong and his Retinue
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This exquisite gold-on-black composition shows the black lion-headed form of Mahakala with his red consort and retinue of eight protector deities, as a 'field or realm protector' (Skt. kshetrapala; Tib. zhing-skyong). This ferocious aspect of 'Lion-faced Mahakala' (Skt....
Palden Lhamo (Magzor Gyalmo)
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Palden Lhamo (dPal-ldan lha-mo), the 'Glorious Goddess', is the principal protective goddess of the Tibetan state, and she is depicted here in her form as Magzor Gyalmo (dMag-zor gyal-mo), the 'Queen who averts war or repulses armies'. The Sanskrit name of this 'glorious goddess' is Shri Devi or...
Citipati - 'The Dancing Skeletons'
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This gold-on-black thangka of two entwined dancing skeletons, who are commonly known as Citipati or Chitipati, is a copy of a nineteenth century colour thangka from the Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet. The Sanskrit term chitipati means the 'Lord (pati) of the funeral pyre...
Vajrabhairava yab-yum
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This gold-on-black composition depicts the wrathful form of Yamantaka or Vajrabhairava and his consort, with the outer, inner and secret forms of the protector Yama Dharmaraja appearing below. Yamantaka, the 'Destroyer (antaka) of the Lord of Death (Yama)', is a wrathful aspect of the...
Vajrakila (Tib. Dorje Phurba)
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Vajrakila (Tib. Dorje Phurba) or Vajrakilaya, meaning the “Dagger of Indestructible Reality”, is one of the eight wrathful yidam or meditational deities of the Nyingma oral Mahayoga transmissions. He is a wrathful aspect of Vajrasattva, and associated with the 'enlightened activity'...
Six-armed Mahakala
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This gold-on-black thangka depicts the powerful protective deity Mahakala in his six-armed aspect as the principal protector of the Shangpa Kagyu tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Mahakala, the 'Great Black One', stands in an upright posture (Skt. samapada) with his heels together as he...
Krishna Yamari
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Krishna Yamari (Tib. Shin-je she-Nag), or Black Yamari, is a wrathful emanation of Manjushri, who appears here in his three-faced, six-armed and four-legged form as the 'Black Enemy of Death' (shin-je she-nag). The meditational practices of this yidam deity belong to both the Nyingma...
