The current exhibition “Beyond Time: The History, Culture […]
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Preliminary Observations on Commissioning Sculpture Sets of Lamdre Lineage Masters in Late 15th-Century Mustang
This post is inspired by a gilded sculpture […]
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Lineage Records as Iconographic Guides: A Gloss Identifying Lochen Jangchub Tsemo
While attempting to identify a Tibetan master depicted […]
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Visually Recording the Ngor Tradition’s Spiritual Heritage: An Overview of the Renowned Lamdre Lineage Set in Over Thirty Paintings
Recently, I contributed a description of a thangka […]
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A Painting of Pañjaranātha Mahākāla Commissioned for Ensuring Ngorchen’s Health and Longevity
The main figure of the painting is Pañjaranātha […]
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From Rongtön Sheja Künrik to Lhachok Sengge: Correcting a Thangka Attribution
The aim of this post is to establish […]
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Textual Treasure Unearthed: Ngorchen’s Lost Exposition on Vajrabhairava’s Generation Stage
An exciting textual discovery has recently emerged: a […]
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A Central Tibetan Thangka Portrait of a Joden Tsokpa Abbot
While using Google Lens to search for similar […]
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Unveiling Sacred Lineage: A Newly Discovered Funerary Commission of the Ngorpa Lamdre Lineage Masters
Recently, Karl E. Ryavec introduced a single painting […]
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Representation of Hevajra as Practised in the Ngor Tradition (1)
While looking at various appearances of Hevajra (Kye […]
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Two Thangkas Recently Sold by a Swedish Auction House: Jetsün Drakpa Gyeltsen and Sakya Paṇḍita
[Update 06 June: The painting of Jetsün Drakpa […]
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Two Paintings of a Newly Identified Set Depicting the Lineage Masters of the Lamdre
A recent sale at Christie’s (Indian, Himalayan and […]
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Buddhaśrī and Other Paintings from a Newly Identified Set Depicting the Lineage of the Profound Path Guruyoga
When a colleague and friend of mine recently […]
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The Two Jamyang Rinchen Gyeltsen of the Gyantse Principality
With the availability of new sources, it can […]
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How to Identify Members of the Four Communities in the Vinaya Tradition of Śākyaśrī
The Monastic Garb of the Four Joden Communities […]