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| Keywords: Offerings to the Goddess Palden Lhamo.jpg Offerings to the Goddess Palden Lhamo Tibet Distemper on cloth 67 x 44 1/8 in 170 2 x 112 cm Palden Lhamo is the principal protectress of Tibet and the only female of the Eight Guardians of the dharma This black-ground Tibetan nag thang painting was installed in the chapel gonkhang dedicated to the wrathful protective deities dharmapalas a room reserved for tantric initiation rites within a Tibetan monastery The exceptional scale and complexity of the composition relate the painting to the offering-scene murals known as sets of ornaments Tibetan rgyan tshogs that adorn the interiors of shrines dedicated to the dharmapalas At center the wrathful four-armed goddess Palden Lhamo emaciated and fearful is shown riding her mule http //www metmuseum org/collection/the-collection-online/search/37806 http //images metmuseum org/CRDImages/as/original/DP234194 jpg direct link late 16th century author PD-old-100 Mandala thangka from Tibet Tibetan Buddhist paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art 16th-century paintings from Tibet Files uploaded by Yann Forget | ||||
