Lot Essay
Dharma Wangchug (1127-1200) was the founder of the Barom Kagyu School. This thangka would have been numbered 5 from a set of 12 illustrating the previous lives of Jonang Taranatha.
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A Thangka of Jetsun Dharma Wangchuk
TIBET, CIRCA 1800
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A Thangka of Jetsun Dharma Wangchuk
Tibet, circa 1800
Very finely painted with the lama seated on an elaborate brocade throne with acolytes before him wearing red and orange brocade robes and a red peaked hat, his face encircled by a blue nimbus and shaded by an overhanging tree, set amidst a mountain landscape with flowing waterfalls and craggy outcrops, Vajravarahi depicted at top right in a variegated aureole dancing over a prostrated figure and Mahakala at lower center holding a karttrka and kapala and surrounded by red-orange flames, mounted in Chinese brocade with four-line Tibetan inscriptions containing mantras for Vajravarahi and Mahakala
26¾ x 19 3/8 in. (67.5 x 49 cm.)
Tibet, circa 1800
Very finely painted with the lama seated on an elaborate brocade throne with acolytes before him wearing red and orange brocade robes and a red peaked hat, his face encircled by a blue nimbus and shaded by an overhanging tree, set amidst a mountain landscape with flowing waterfalls and craggy outcrops, Vajravarahi depicted at top right in a variegated aureole dancing over a prostrated figure and Mahakala at lower center holding a karttrka and kapala and surrounded by red-orange flames, mounted in Chinese brocade with four-line Tibetan inscriptions containing mantras for Vajravarahi and Mahakala
26¾ x 19 3/8 in. (67.5 x 49 cm.)