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The 8th Tai Situ Lama with nine great teachers
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Description
This Karma Gadri style painting shows the 8th Tai Situ as a relatively young man, his hair still black. Depicted above is a lineage group of great religious teachers of the Mahayana and Vajrayana Buddhist traditions: Vasubandhu, Nagarjuna, Gunaprabha, Padmasambhava, Chandrakirti, Maitripa, Naropa, the first Kalkin king of Shambhala, and Birupa.
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Details
- Associated place
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Asia › Tibet › east Tibet (place of creation)
- Date
- mid-18th century
- Associated people
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8th Tai Situ Panchen Chökyi Jungné (1700 - 1774) (subject)Vasubandhu (active c. 4th - c. 5th century AD) (subject)Nagarjuna (active c. 2nd century AD) (subject)Chandrakirti (active c. 7th century AD) (subject)Naropa (1016 - 1100) (subject)Virupa (active c. 9th century AD) (subject)
- Material and technique
- gouache on cloth
- Dimensions
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107 x 51 cm (height x width)
along handles 60 cm (length)
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by E. M. Scratton, 1991.
- Accession no.
- EA1991.180
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Further reading
Jackson, David, A History of Tibetan Painting: The Great Tibetan Painters and their Traditions, Beitrage zur kultur - und Geisteschichte Asiens, 15; Denkschriften, 242 (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1996), p. 278, illus. p. 278 fig. 143 & fig. 143A
Location
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- currently in research collection
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