dPal-Idan Lha-mo (Magzor Palden Lhamo), a Tibetan demon goddess riding on a mule. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.

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Sanskrit: Sri-devi, or Kala-devi. Label with the work says "Pal-ldan-Lha-Mo (Skt. Sri Devi.) The most terribkle of al the Tibetan she-devils, who lets loose the demons of disease, seated on a white mule, surrounded by pendant human heads, armed with a sword and holding a cup full of brains and blood, the mule wading in a sea of blood."

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[Tibet]

Physical description

1 painting : distemper on linen ; distemper 33 x 24.7 cm

References note

Not in: Marianne Winder, Catalogue of Tibetan manuscripts and xylographs, and catalogue of thankas, banners and other paintings and drawings in the Library of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London 1989

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Wellcome Collection 47080i

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