七幅红唐卡

肃火斤

附件01.

Tibet

1600 - 1699

Buddhist Lineage

85.09x60.96cm (33.50x24in)

Fine Gold Line, Red Background on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

Maitreya (Tibetan: cham pa. English: Love), the bodhisattva of loving kindness and the coming buddha of the future aeon - currently residing in the Tushita heaven.

Beautiful and peaceful, Maitreya is yellow in colour (gold painted) with one face and two hands performing the Dharma Teaching mudra (gesture) at the heart while holding the stems of two utpala flowers blossoming at both ears supporting on the right a water flask and on the left a Dharma Wheel. Adorned with gold and jewel ornaments, a crown, earrings, necklaces, bracelets and the like, he wears various flowing silk scarves and lower robes; seated in the vajra posture on a moon disc and lotus blossom surrounded by fine gold rays emanating to form a nimbus and areola of light.

Maitreya is seated above a multi-leveled throne, before a pavilion with three Chinese style roofs and a canopy, beneath the soothing nectar offered by groups of gathering heavenly gods. With an attendant bodhisattva standing at each side he is surrounded by numerous smaller pavilions each occupied by an emanation of himself in the performance of giving teachings to small groups of faithful listeners.

"With the fire of great love burning the fuel of anger, the light of pristine awareness removes the darkness of ignorance; heir to the Conqueror's Dharma, upcoming leader of beings; to the one residing in Tushita, I bow." (Sakya liturgical verse).

The painting style is called 'tsal thang'. On a red (vermilion) background the painting is executed with fine gold line and coloured pigments added for various detailing such as the face, mouth, eyes and hair.

肃火斤

附件02.

Tibet

1700 - 1799

Sakya Lineage

55.88x40.64cm (22x16in)

Ground Mineral Pigment, Red Background on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

Shakyamuni Buddha (Tibetan: sha kya tu pa, sang gye. English: the Enlightened One, Sage of the Shakya Clan) surrounded by various disciples and lineage teachers.

肃火斤

附件03.

Kurukulla (Buddhist Deity)

Central Tibet

1800 - 1899

Sakya and Ngor (Sakya) Lineages

29.21x21.59cm (11.50x8.50in)

Ground Mineral Pigment, Fine Gold Line, Red Background on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

Kurukulla (Tibetan: rig che ma. English: The One of the Action Family): Goddess of Power.

Powerful, red in colour with one face, hair flowing upward, three eyes and four hands, slightly fierce in expression, she holds a bow and arrow in the first pair of hands and a hook and lasso in the lower pair. All the hand objects are constructed of red utpala flowers and used as implements for the subjugation and accomplishment of all goals. Adorned with jewel ornaments, a tiara, earrings, necklaces, bracelets and silk scarves, she wears a lower skirt of tiger skin. Standing atop a corpse, sun disc and lotus blossom she dances amidst the circular flames of the fire of pristine awareness.

At the top center is the Buddha of the Western direction Amitabha. At the top left is mahasiddha Virupa performing the gesture (mudra) of Dharma Teaching with the two hands at the heart; seated in a relaxed posture. At the top right is a teacher of the Sakya tradition of Tibetan Buddhism with the hands folded in meditation and wearing a scholar's (pandita) hat with the lappets folded across the crown. At the bottom left is Green Tara, with one face and two hands, seated in a relaxed posture. At the right is another Sakya teacher holding a vase in the extended right hand and the stem of a lotus in the left held to the heart with the blossom supporting an ignorance cleaving sword and the Prajnaparamita wisdom book. At the bottom center is the wrathful protector 'Queen of the Weapon Army' (mag zor gyal mo), with one face and two hands holding a stick and skullcup; riding a mule.

In the Sakya Tradition there are numerous forms of Kurukulle from the four different tantra classifications and all of those can be arranged in five levels of profundity. This particular subject belongs to the fourth or fifth of the higher classifications - those associated with the Hevajra and Vajrapanjara Tantras.

Guru Lineage: the great Vajradhara, the holy Kurukulla, Raja Sahaja Lalita, Vajrasana the Greater, the Younger Amoghavajra, Bari Lotsawa Rinchen Drag, Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (1092-1158), etc.

This type of painting is called tsal tang - gold outline on a red background, generally used for power and long-life deities, and bodhisattva figures. A similar type of painting is a ser tang where the background is entirely of gold with the drawing often done in a red outline.

肃火斤

附件04.

Mongolia

1800 - 1899

Gelug Lineage

Ground Mineral Pigment, Red Background on Cotton

Collection of Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts

肃火斤

附件05.

Avalokiteshvara - (11 faces, 8 hands)

Central Tibet

1600 - 1699

Uncertain Lineage

68.58x44.45cm (27x17.50in)

Fine Gold Line, Red Background on Cotton

Collection of Rubin Museum of Art

肃火斤

附件06.

China

1700 - 1799

Buddhist Lineage

Red Background

Collection of Private

肃火斤

附件07.

华严九心

顶礼！
有点震撼人心的感觉，:lol

自在无为

顶礼！

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顶礼

多吉次仁

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