Found In: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Tanka collection (Tibet MSS 62) > Identified Subjects > Gautama Buddha and Scenes from Jātakas / Collection Title: Tanka collection (Tibet MSS 62) / Repository: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library / Grouping: Series II: Identified Subjects

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Published / Created:: circa 1700-1800
Call Number:: Tibet MSS 62
Container / Volume:: Box 34 (Oversize)
Image Count:: 4
Description:: A Tibetan watercolor painting on cotton that depicts Gautama Buddha surrounded by scenes from "The Starving Tigress Jātaka." In the story a bodhisattva sees a starving tigress about to eat her own cubs, and the bodhisattva offers her his own body. I...
Found in:: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Tanka collection (Tibet MSS 62) > Series II: Identified Subjects > Gautama Buddha and Scenes from Jātakas > Tanka of Gautama Buddha and scenes from the Starving Tigress Jātaka

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