A set of five thangkas of the Five Directional Buddhas

TIBET, 18TH CENTURY

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A set of five thangkas of the Five Directional Buddhas
Tibet, 18th century
Each with a central Buddha seated on a lotus blossom with his hands in various mudras, dressed in multicolored robes, the face with small bow-shaped mouth and downcast eyes surmounted by a foliate tiara, backed by a nimbus and aureole topped with a Garuda and flanked by attendant bodhisattvas, surrounded by rows of two hundred seated Buddhas
30 x 20¾ in. (76.3 x 55.6 cm.), each (5)

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This set of thangkas depicts the Five Buddhas of the Directions or Five Tantric Buddhas, identified by their mudras as Vairochana, Amitabha, Akshobhya, Ratnasambhava, and Amoghasiddhi, while the five fields of two hundred Buddhas represent the thousand Buddhas of this age. A form of Vajrayana Buddhism, worship of these thangkas would have been through meditation, in much the same way one would worship at a mandala.

TIBET, 18TH CENTURY

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