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Description

Title: Tanka of Tārā
Published / Created: circa 1800-circa 1850
Description: A Tibetan watercolor painting on cotton that depicts Tārā surrounded by 321 miniature replica emanations of herself, as well as two incarnations of the Amitābha and Amitāyus.
Provenance: Acquired from various sources. For further information consult entries for individual tankas in the guide to the collection., Gift of Edwin R. Meiss (Yale 1933) and Jean Hoffheimer Meiss, 1961.
Language: Tibetan
Sanskrit

Item Location

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

Tibet MSS 62

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  - Series II: Identified Subjects, circa 1600-circa 1950
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Container / Volume

62 (Art)

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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): 10563750

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