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Description

Title: Tanka of Avalokiteśvara
Published / Created: circa 1800-circa 1900
Description: An eastern Tibetan watercolor painting on cotton that depicts a white Avalokiteśvara with four arms seated on a pink lotus below Gautama Buddha, Vajrapāṇi, and Tsoṅ-kha-pa Blo-bzaṅ-grags-pa with two disciples, as well as above Manjushri, a green Tārā, and Vajrapāṇi. Inscriptions in Tibetan on the verso. The tanka includes a silk cover.
Provenance: Acquired from various sources. For further information consult entries for individual tankas in the guide to the collection., Gift of an anonymous donor (Yale 1929), 1985.
Language: Tibetan
Sanskrit

Item Location

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

Tibet MSS 62

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Container / Volume

Box 18 (Oversize)

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Citation: Tanka Collection. General Collection of Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Identifiers

Catalog Record: 9924184
Object ID (OID): 10563706

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