唐卡图集(续集)

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Buddhasamayoga (Tibetan: sang gye nyam jor. English: Secret Union of the Enlightened One) arising from the tantra of the same name.

Wrathful in appearance, blue in colour, he has four faces and eight hands. The first pair embrace the consort Ishvari. In a dancing posture atop a corpse he stands in the center of a lotus surrounded by eight seated figures of various colour. Four further attendants and four door guardians sit outside of that.

At the four corners of the top and bottom are sixteen seated buddha figures all identical in appearance.

Tibet

1500 - 1599

Uncertain Lineage

26.67x24.13cm (10.50x9.50in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

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Western Tibet

1400 - 1499

Sakya and Karma (Kagyu) Lineages

44.45x42.55cm (17.50x16.75in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

Vajravarahi (Tibetan: dor je phag mo, English: the Vajra Sow) accompanied by 24 dakinis, Sahaja Chakrasamvara above and two monastic figures below.

Red in colour, slightly peaceful and slightly wrathful, with one face and two hands she gazes forward with three eyes. The face of a brown female boar protrudes from her right side behind the ear. Held aloft in the right hand is a curved knife and to the heart with the left a skullcup. The bend of the elbow cradles a vajra katvanga staff - gold coloured, long and thin. Crowned with a tiara of five skulls the black hair of the head flows downward behind. Adorned with gold earrings, necklaces, bracelets and a girdle with decorative tassels, she wears a garland of fifty fresh heads. Draped across the shoulders is a long scarf of yellow and green. The right leg is raised in a dancing posture and the left presses upon a small red sun disc atop a prone yellow figure above another sun disc resting on a multi-coloured lotus blossom surrounded by a large red sphere of tightly swirling flames of pristine awareness fire.

Within the sphere reside the four close attendant dakinis, yellow Rupini, red Khandaroha, green Lama and blue Dakini. Each has one face and four hands holding a curved knife and skullcup in the first pair and an upraised damaru drum and katvanga staff in the second. Wearing the same ornaments and standing firmly with both legs, each is surrounded by a circle of fire.

At the top center in Heruka form is Sahaja Chakrasamvara, blue, with one face and two hands holding a vajra and bell embracing the consort Vajravarahi, red in colour. Along the sides and bottom are 20 dakinis. All of those but 4 have one face and four hands, in a variety of colours, similar to the main attendants. The 4 remaining dakinis, standing at the outside right and left of the central figure each have two hands and an animal face. Seated at the bottom right and left corners, monastic figures wearing red robes perform the teaching mudra with the two hands held at the heart.

Vajravarahi, along with numerous variations in appearance such as Vajrayogini and the Fierce Black One, remains one of the most popular and special tutelary deity practices arising from the Chakrasamvara cycle of tantras belonging to the wisdom class of Anuttarayoga Tantra. These various forms are practiced in all the Sarma Schools, Sakya, Kagyu and the like.

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Central Tibet

1500 - 1599

Sakya, Ngor (Sakya) and Buddhist Lineages

52.07x43.82cm (20.50x17.25in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

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Tibet

1400 - 1499

Buddhist Lineage

52.07x45.72cm (20.50x18in)

Ground Mineral Pigment

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

Medicine Buddha Mandala (Sanskrit: Bhaishajyaguru mandala. Tibetan: sang gye men la kyil kor. English: the Buddha, Guru of Medicine). At the center is the goddess Prajnaparamita.

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Troma Nagmo (Sanskrit: Krishna Krodhini. English: the Fierce Black One), a wrathful form of Vajravarahi.

"...Bhagavani [Krodha Kali] with a great radiance at the time of darkness, fierce and raging. The main face is wrathful, the very pure relative truth, and the upper face of a pig is the pure ultimate truth, gazing upward; [both] having three round red eyes. The right hand holds a curved knife upraised and the left a skullcup of blood [held] to the heart. In the bend of the left elbow, as the nature of method, appears a katvanga staff. Wearing an elephant hide as an upper garment and a tiger skin as a lower garment; adorned with snakes and bones. Dark yellow hair bristles upward, the remainder falling loose. With a crown of five dry human skulls, a necklace of fifty fresh. The left leg is extended in a half dance posture pressing on the heart of a human corpse. Appearing youthful and dwelling in the middle of a blazing mass of fire." (Terdag Lingpa Gyurme Dorje (1646-1714) and Min-ling Lochen Dharmashri 1654-1718).

Tibet

1800 - 1899

Kagyu Lineage

73.03x52.07cm (28.75x20.50in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

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Manjushri Nagaraksha, Wrathful (Tibetan: jam pal lu'i drag po).

Tibet

1800 - 1899

Gelug and Drigung (Kagyu) Lineages

76.84x63.50cm (30.25x25in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

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Red Jambhala (Tibetan: dzam bha la mar po. Sanskrit: Rakta Jambhala): a powerful wealth deity from the 'Terma' (Treasure Teachings) of Trapa Ngonshe.

"...Red Jambhala with three faces, six hands and four legs. The body is red in colour, like ruby, and blazing with light. Beautiful and desirous in appearance, slightly fierce and smiling. The main face is red - laughing, the right white and left blue. The first pair of hands hold a precious gem and a jewel filled skullcup. The middle two a hook and lasso. The lowest two each [hold] a mongoose spewing various jewels. The two right legs are bent and the two left slightly straight; pressing on the male and female lords of wealth. Adorned with the eight great snakes and various jewels and a garland of flowers and fluttering ribbons." (Terdag Lingpa Gyurme Dorje (1646-1714) and Min-ling Lochen Dharmashri 1654-1718. Tibetan source text 'dod 'jo bum bzang pp. 353-354).

With three faces, six hands and four legs the right face is white, left dark blue, each with three eyes. The three right hands hold a hook, jewel and a jewel spitting mongoose. The left hold a skullcup filled with jewels, lasso and a mongoose. Leaning to the right side, his four feet press down on two wealth yakshas (daemons of classical Indian mythology). In a slightly peaceful and slightly wrathful demeanor, plump and happy, adorned with opulent jewel ornaments, silk scarves and a long snake necklace he stands above a sun disc and lotus seat, surrounded by an orange and rainbow nimbus.

This form of Red Jambhala belongs to the Nyingmapa 'Terma' - Revealed Treasure Tradition and was discovered as an 'Earth Treasure' by Trapa Ngonshe Wangchug Bar (1012-1090). Written on yellow parchment paper, it was extracted from above the door of the central shrine at Samye Chokor Ling. This famous 'terton' (treasure finder) is also responsible for uncovering the 'Four Medical Tantras.'

Eastern Tibet

1800 - 1899

Nyingma and Karma (Kagyu) Lineages

63.50x48.26cm (25x19in)

Ground: Cotton

Karma Gardri Painting School

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

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Speech-Amitayus (Tibetan: sung, tse pag me): the 4th mandala in the set of 12 mandalas according to the Sarvadurgati Parishodhana Tantra.

Tibet

1800 - 1899

Uncertain Lineage

33.02x29.85cm (13x11.75in)

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

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Central Tibet

1800 - 1899

Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

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