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A black ground thangka of Yama Dharmaraja Tibet, 18th century image 1
A black ground thangka of Yama Dharmaraja Tibet, 18th century image 2
Lot 22

A black ground thangka of Yama Dharmaraja
Tibet, 18th century

18 September 2013, 10:00 EDT
New York

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A black ground thangka of Yama Dharmaraja

Tibet, 18th century
Distemper on cloth; with a buffalo face and holding a staff and flaming skull finial in his outstretched right hand, the left hand with a coiled lasso, attended by his consort Chamundi who offers a blood-filled skullcup with her right hand and a trident in her left, both are adorned with wrathful attire, bone ornaments, and various skins, surrounded by swirling gilt-edged flames, dancing chitipati below, a retinue of six wrathful protectors, and Tsongkhapa with lineage masters above; a lengthy poetic inscription on the reverse with a description of the deity in the first verse, mainly regarding the face, and a wish to assist the deity in his effort for the dharma.
Image: 22 x 16 1/2 in. (56 x 42 cm)

Footnotes

See lot 23 for further discussion of the subject. Compare with a closely related example in the Rubin Museum of Art, see Linrothe and Watt, Demonic Divine, New York, 2005, fig. 1.4, p. 6.

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