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A THANGKA OF PADMASAMBHAVA DORJE DRAKPO TSAL
EASTERN TIBET, KHAM PROVINCE, CIRCA 19TH CENTURY
Distemper and gold on cloth; with original silk brocade mounts and silk curtain.
Inscribed on the verso with the ‘ye dharma hetu...’ Buddhist creed, Supratishtha
mantra and the following:
འོད་སྣང་མཐའ་ཡས་རྒྱལ་བའི་ཐུགས་རྗེའི་དཔྱིད།
བརྟུལ་ཤུགས་མཛད་པ་མཐར་གསོན་དངོས་གྲུབ་རྙེད།
སྡེ་བརྒྱད་བྲན་ཁོལ་རྡོ་རྗེ་དྲག་པོ་རྩལ།
སྐུ་བརྙན་བཞེངས་མཐུས་མགོན་ཁྱོད་མྱུར་འགྲུབ་ཤོག།
ཅེས་པའང་གསང་བ་རྩལ་གྱིས་སོ།
Translated:
“A lord of limitless light and the spender of compassion blazing,
And who completed the Yogic discipline and attained siddhas,
Wrathful form of Padamsambhava (rdo rje drag po rtsal) who enslave the eight
classes of violent deities,
Creating such an image as an object of worship,
May I quickly attain the stage of the lord by creating such an image.
Also by Sangwa Tsal.”
Inscribed on the recto identifying the figures in the upper register:
རིག་འཛིན་རྒོད་ལྡེམ། (Rig ‘dzin rgod ldem)
དང་པོའི་སངས་རྒྱས་གསང་སྔགས་ཆོས་རྒྱལ། (dang po’i sangs rgyas gsang sngags chos rgyal)
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 1853
Image: 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (41.9 x 31.8 cm);
With Silks: 38 1/4 x 22 1/4 in. (97.2 x 56.5 cm)
$15,000 - 20,000
藏東 康區 約十九世紀 蓮花生大士忿怒尊唐卡
This form of Padmasambhava depicts his wrathful form as Dorje Drakpo Tsal. His
retinue includes five dakinis, the warrior aspect of Pehar, the cycloptic goddess
Ekajati, Tseringma as the white goddess on horseback, and the blue Buddha
Samantabhadra and his consort, Samantabhadri, residing in the heavens. The
inscription near the master on the upper left, Day pay Sangye Sangnag Chogyel,
identifies him as Jangdak Tashi Tobgyel (1550-1603), the founder of Sangnag
Monastery. The figure on the upper right wearing a red hat capped by a feather
is Rigdzin Godemchen Ngodrub Gyeltsen (1337-1409), the Nyingma master who
founded the teachings of the Northern Treasure tradition, or Jangter, which were
transmitted to the Fifth Dalai Lama through his visions of Tashi Tobgyel.
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