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At the bottom of the painting is an inscription dedicating the painting to the Five Superior Teachers of the Sakya tradition by the instructor Rabjampa Tsultrim Ozer and a number of other students of the teacher Sherab Zangpo. It is likely that this painting belongs to a larger set of works commissioned by a group of individuals who came together to fund this expensive undertaking.
Mandala of Manjushri Dharmadhatu Vagishvara
OriginTibet
Date16th century (ca. 1500)
Dimensions29 x 27 in. (73.7 x 68.6 cm)
MediumPigments on cloth
Classification(s)
Credit LineRubin Museum of Art, Gift of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation
Object numberF1996.15.2
Himalayan Art Resources Number455
DescriptionThis painting is a particularly fine example of a mandala with two palaces, a square palace inside of a larger circular palace. This mandala, with its two hundred nineteen deities, is the first of seven principal mandalas from an Indian Sanskrit text called the Manjushri Namasangiti (“Chanting the Names of Manjushri”) Tantra. Monks and lamas from all Himalayan traditions memorize this text in early childhood.At the bottom of the painting is an inscription dedicating the painting to the Five Superior Teachers of the Sakya tradition by the instructor Rabjampa Tsultrim Ozer and a number of other students of the teacher Sherab Zangpo. It is likely that this painting belongs to a larger set of works commissioned by a group of individuals who came together to fund this expensive undertaking.
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ca.1500
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