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monastery of nearby Dongtog. He was thought to have been commissioned by the third Panchen lama Palden Yeshe (1738-1780),
and a number of his works are now in the imperial collection in Beijing as gifts to the Qianlong emperor (r. 1735-1796).

Compare a later nineteenth century Amitabha in Sukhavati in the Rubin Museum of Art, see Marylin M. Rhie and Robert A. F.
Thurman, Worlds of Transformation: Tibetan Art of Wisdom and Compassion, New York, 1999 p. 428, cat. no 169. Also compare this
to a painting of the same style depicting Kalachakra, see The Complete Collection of Treasures of the Palace Museum: Tangka-
Buddhist Painting of Tibet, no. 59, Beijing, 2008, cat. no. 36.

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