AN EAST TIBETAN THANG-KA DEPICTING HAYAGRIVA, standing with his eight legs in pratyalidhasana on snakes, on a lotus base, his six hands radiating around his body and holding his specific attributes, wearing dharmapala-ornaments, tiger skin, mala of severed heads, channavira, his three-faced head with bulging eyes, flaming hairdress with horse-heads, flaming aureol behind, Yamantaka flanked by Buddha Sakyamuni and Tsong-kha-pa above, probably Pe-har rgyal-po, a form of a sKu-lnga and Beg-tse below, in a landscape, in velvet mounting, 19th Century

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AN EAST TIBETAN THANG-KA DEPICTING HAYAGRIVA, standing with his eight legs in pratyalidhasana on snakes, on a lotus base, his six hands radiating around his body and holding his specific attributes, wearing dharmapala-ornaments, tiger skin, mala of severed heads, channavira, his three-faced head with bulging eyes, flaming hairdress with horse-heads, flaming aureol behind, Yamantaka flanked by Buddha Sakyamuni and Tsong-kha-pa above, probably Pe-har rgyal-po, a form of a sKu-lnga and Beg-tse below, in a landscape, in velvet mounting, 19th Century
50 x 34 cm (minor damp damage)

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