Tibetan paintings in manuscript form

[Tibetan Buddhism]. [Tibetan Buddhist miniatures].

€ 4,500.00

A manuscript collection of Tibetan Buddhist paintings and talismans, showing Buddhist deities, many protective. Painted in black ink, captioned in Tibetan, and painted in washes of pigment, the manuscript comprises seven illustrations of deities, some identifiable by their iconography, and six full-page designs in the style of talismans. One of the talismans includes the wrathful Buddhist incarnation of Avalokitesvara, the Boddhisatva of compassion, Hayagriva. A wrathful, horse-headed incarnation, Hayagriva is celebrated in Tibetan Buddhism as a destroyer of the roadblocks to compassionate acts. Similarly wrathful Buddhist deities appear in the coloured illustrations, such as warlike Begtse, and Ekajati, the powerful goddess with one leg, one breast, and one eye, representing the anti-duality of the oneness of the Universe. In total, the manuscript is illustrated with 18 Buddhist deities.