A TIBETAN, PROBABLY NGOR MONASTERY, THANG-KA DEPICTING THE MAHASIDDHA BIR.VA.PA, seated with feet crossed on an antelope-skin draped over a lotus, placed on a throne, the front with a pair of lions and elephants, both hands in dharmacakramudra , naked except for a channavira , small loin-cloth, floating scarf, two malas of flowers, pot-bellied, his face with open eyes, broad nose, open mouth showing teeth and fangs, moustache, beard, elongated earlobes with circular ear-rings, the piled hairdress with flower-wreath and wrapped pustaka , halo behind, flanked by a pair of pillars issuing from kalasas , partly covered with drapery, a large shaped arched nimbus behind, with Amitabha and Amitayus at head level, surrounded by thirty-six deities and lamas, each with their name in gold dBu-can script below, four figures of Amitayus, the side borders with gold flowers, the lower border with inscription in gold dBu-can script, the reverse with a tiered triangle of black dBu-can inscriptions and mantras , a blue silk mounting below and above, the last with his name in black dBu-can script, a lacquered pole, circa A.D. 1600 78.5 x 66 cm
A TIBETAN, PROBABLY NGOR MONASTERY, THANG-KA DEPICTING THE MAHASIDDHA BIR.VA.PA, seated with feet crossed on an antelope-skin draped over a lotus, placed on a throne, the front with a pair of lions and elephants, both hands in dharmacakramudra , naked except for a channavira , small loin-cloth, floating scarf, two malas of flowers, pot-bellied, his face with open eyes, broad nose, open mouth showing teeth and fangs, moustache, beard, elongated earlobes with circular ear-rings, the piled hairdress with flower-wreath and wrapped pustaka , halo behind, flanked by a pair of pillars issuing from kalasas , partly covered with drapery, a large shaped arched nimbus behind, with Amitabha and Amitayus at head level, surrounded by thirty-six deities and lamas, each with their name in gold dBu-can script below, four figures of Amitayus, the side borders with gold flowers, the lower border with inscription in gold dBu-can script, the reverse with a tiered triangle of black dBu-can inscriptions and mantras , a blue silk mounting below and above, the last with his name in black dBu-can script, a lacquered pole, circa A.D. 1600 78.5 x 66 cm
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