A watercolor painting on cotton that depicts Lobsang Chökyi Gyaltsen wearing yellow and seated on cushions with smaller figures of protective divinities, ten lamas, and Güshi Khan (1582-1655), a Khoshut prince and leader of the Khoshut Khanate.
The tanka includes a silk cover.
A watercolor painting on cotton that depicts Mahākāla with a dark blue body, three heads, and six arms, with ornaments made of human skulls, and accompanied by thirty-eight figures. Consecrated by a lama on the verso with an om-ah-hum and the red hand prints of the lama and the patron.
A watercolor painting on cotton that depicts Mahākāla with four faces and four arms, with ornaments made of human skulls.
Inscription in Tibetan on verso.
The tanka includes a silk cover.
Mañjuśrī is a bodhisattva associated with transcendent wisdom. and A Sikkimese watercolor painting on cotton that depicts Mañjuśrī, accompanied by a white Tārā with seven eyes and Viśrāvaṇa, the chief of the Four Heavenly Kings. The figures are reportedly modeled after the Macrae family.
Inscriptions in Tibetan on verso.
The tanka includes a silk cover and ribbons.
A Nepalese watercolor painting on cotton that depicts Ṅag-dbaṅ-blo-bzaṅ-rgya-mtsho, probably in Potala Palace and accompanied by musicians, with other human figures in the foreground.
Inscription in Tibetan on verso.
A western Tibetan or Nepalese watercolor painting on cotton that depicts Padma Sambhava with two female consorts, Mandarava and Yeshe Tsogyal.
Inscriptions in Tibetan on verso.
The tanka includes a silk cover.
A Tibetan watercolor painting on cotton that depicts Palden Lhamo crossing a sea of blood riding side-saddle on a white mule. Above her are Tsoṅ-kha-pa Blo-bzaṅ-grags-pa and a Panchen Lama.
A Tibetan watercolor painting on cotton that depicts Palden Lhamo crossing a sea of blood riding side-saddle on a white mule. Above her are Tsoṅ-kha-pa Blo-bzaṅ-grags-pa and two of his disciples. Below her is a mounted figure.