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A Vajrabhairava mandala
Mongolia, 19th century
Distemper on cloth; with lineage masters and hierarchs in the upper registers and an elaborate
arrangement of sense torma offerings in the lower section.
Image: 24 3/4 x 18 3/8 in. (60.4 x 46.7 cm); With silks: 47 1/2 x 23 3/4 in. (120.7 x 60.3 cm)
$20,000 - 30,000

Compare the vibrant palette and the treatment of figures in a large thangka of Meditations of
the Bogdo Gegen in the Bogdo Khan Palace Museum, published in Berger & Bartholomew,
Mongolia: The Legacy of Chinggis Khan, San Francisco, 1995, p. 126, no. 18. Also compare
with a Shambala Mandala in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (ibid., p. 180, no. 45).

The lotus platforms and clouds are similarly rendered in a Vajrabhairava thangka held in the
Rubin Museum of Art: www.himalayanart.org/image.cfm/900.html

Referenced
HAR – himalayanart.org/image.cfm/41208.html

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