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anonymous: Eight Mahasiddhas  wikidata:Q28801706 reasonator:Q28801706
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Title
Eight Mahasiddhas
title QS:P1476,en:"Eight Mahasiddhas"
label QS:Len,"Eight Mahasiddhas"
Object type painting
object_type QS:P31,Q3305213
Description
This is the last painting of an eleven-painting set from Palpung monastery and dedicated to “The Eighty-four Great Tantric Adepts (Mahasiddhas). Especially interesting is the figure of the great adept Putalipa at top center, seated in a cave and gazing at an image of the meditational deity Samvara. The scene offers a view of a tantric Buddhist icon in use. Above in the sky are the white bodhisattva Samantabhadra and, below him, small, red wrathful figure Cakhavartin. The other figures can be identified as: the bodhisattva Samantabhadra; Darikapa; Putalipa; Upanaha; Kokilipa; Anangapa; Lakshmikara; Samudra; Vyalipa.
Date 18th century
date QS:P571,+1750-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Medium Mineral pigments on cloth
English: Mineral pigments on cloth
institution QS:P195,Q63751
Accession number
C2005.22.1
Object history Eastern Tibet
Exhibition history
English: - Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., "Lama, Patron, Artist: The Great Situ Panchen" (03/13/10 - 07/18/10) - RMA, "Patron and Painter: Situ Panchen and the Revival of the Encampment Style" (02/06/09 - 08/17/09)
References Google Arts & Culture asset ID: JgHgByAVb1Nv_Q Edit this at Wikidata
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