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The making of a thangka painting

Sacred arts of Tibet

Textiles and worship: the image of God

Works of Art

Wangguli and five additional Newar artists, Four Mandalas of the Vajravali Cycle

1429–56

Stories of Previous Lives of the Buddha (Jataka)

18th century

Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room (Kagyu tradition iteration)

2024

Tsherin Sherpa, Muted Expressions

2022

Situ Panchen

c. 1760s

Handheld Prayer Wheel

early 20th century

Lobsang Drubjam Tsering, Medicine Buddha Palace

2012–13 reproduction of a 17th-century original

The Fifth Dalai Lama Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso (1617–1682) with Previous Incarnations

18th century

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Artists

Tenzing Rigdol, Pin drop silence: Eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara, 2013, ink, pencil, acrylic, and pastel on paper, 232.7 x 124.8 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Andrew Cohen, in honor of Tenzing Rigdol and Fabio Rossi, 2013) © Tenzing Rigdol

Tenzing Rigdol, Pin drop silence: Eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara, 2013, ink, pencil, acrylic, and pastel on paper, 232.7 x 124.8 cm (The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Andrew Cohen, in honor of Tenzing Rigdol and Fabio Rossi, 2013) © Tenzing Rigdol

Lobsang Tsering

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