Worldly Protector (Buddhist) - Pehar

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Mongolia

1800 - 1899

Nyingma and Gelug Lineages

71.12x55.88cm (28x22in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

Pehar Gyalpo: the Worldly Protector - King Daemon Pehar.

Within the central rainbow sphere resides Pehar, white in colour, with three faces, right white, left red, each with three large round eyes. In the first lower pair of hands is a sword and stick, the middle pair a bow and arrow and the upper pair hold a long handled hook and knife. Wearing a yellow hat with a multi-coloured brim he is adorned with variously coloured silks and garments, bone and jewel ornaments and a necklace of freshly severed heads. Riding on the back of a white snow lion with a green mane he is surrounded by the dark flames of wisdom fire.

At the top center is Lama Tsongkapa (1357-1419), founder of the Gelugpa School, wearing monastic robes and a yellow pandita hat. He performs the 'Dharma teaching' gesture with the two hands while holding the stems of two lotus blossoms supporting a sword and book. To the right and left in similar attire are the two foremost disciples Gyaltsap Dharma Rinchen (1364-1432) and Khedrup Gelek Palzangpo (1385-1438).

At the top left, inside a rainbow sphere, is the female worldly guardian Tseringma, white, with one face and two hands holding an upraised vajra and a long-life vase, riding a snow lion. To the right, inside a rainbow, is the Direction Guardian Vaishravana with one face and two hands holding a victory banner and mongoose, riding a snow lion. Slightly below at the left and right are the buddhas Shakyamuni supporting a begging bowl in the lap with the left hand. To the right is the dark blue buddha Akshobhya.

At the lower left is the buddha of purification Vajrasattva, white, holding a vajra and bell. On the right side is the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara, white, with one face and four hands holding a wishing jewel with the first pair and a crystal mala and lotus with the second.

At the bottom center is the worldly protector Dorje Lekpa with one face and two hands holding a vajra and heart, wearing a round yellow hat, extensive garments and riding a snow lion surrounded by flames. To the left is Krishna Krodhini Vajra Varahi (Tibetan: tro mo nag ma), black, with two faces and two hands holding a curved knife and skullcup, surrounded by flames. At the right is Simhamukha, blue-black in colour holding a curved knife, skullcup and katvanga staff, surrounded by flames.

Pehar is a non-Tibetan protector, invited to Tibet by Guru Rinpoche and bound by an oath to protect all the Buddhist centres.

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原图网址 http://www.himalayanart.org/image.cfm?icode=213

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