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Tsagli of a bodhisattva A miniature drawing on paper of a seated bodhisattva holding a karttikaand kapala. Central - Tibet, 16th cent. Size: 11 x 13 cm. |
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A small thangka of the Buddha Amitabha, flanked by the bodhisattvas Padmapani and Vajrapani and surrounded by various deities. Below Mahakala and Palden Lhamo. Central - Tibet, 14th cent. Size: 37 x 32,5 cm. |
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Portrait of a Sakya-lama The central lama is surrounded by the most important figures of the Sakya-lineage, as Kunga Nyingpo, Sakya Pandita and Phagpa. Above him Hevajra in yab-yum; at the bottom Mahakala as Gurgyi Gompo. This thangka is painted in the rarely-found so-called Khyenri-style, founded in the 16th. century by Jamyang Khyentse Wangchuk. Tibet, 17th cent. Size: 43 x 29 cm. |
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Tsongkhapa, surrounded by the most important religious leaders of the Gelugpa-tradition and older and related orders. Below Tsongkhapa is frontally depicted the Second Panchen Lama, Lobzang Yeshe, who died in 1737 AD, so this painting can be dated in the early 18th cent. Size: 68 x 57 cm. |
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The Buddha Sakyamuni with Maudhgalyayana and Shariputra. Eastern Tibet, 18th cent. Size:48x 67 cm. |
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 Five Shtaviras This Eastern-Tibetan thangka is painted in the so-called Karma Gar-dri-style and dates from around 1800 AD. From a set of seven thangkas, depicting the Buddha Sakyamuni, the 18 Shtaviras and the 4 Lokapalas. Size :71 x 51 cm. |
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Karma Dakini This thangka depicts a rare four-armed form of the red Guhja-Jñana Dakini, surrounded by other Dakinis and a Lama; above one sees the three Buddhas of Past, Present and Future; different religious leaders of the Gelugpa-tradition with Padmasambhava and his two wives; and right the three gods of the Rigs gsum mgon po. Tibet, late 18th cent. Size:65 x 46 cm. |
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A rare and early painted panel, depicting the 1000-armed Avalokiteshvara, surrounded bij several deities and a monk. On the backside a crudely painted symbol of the sun and the moon. Tibet, ca. 1300 AD. Size: 15 x 12 cm. |
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Some examples of a large collection of Tibetan and Mongolian tsaglis (miniature thangkas on textile or on paper), dating from the 14th to the early 20th cent. The smallest are 1 x 1,5 cm. while the largest are ca. 15 x 20 cm. |
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