Attributes of Bhairava in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.

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47091i
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In the centre is an offering cake (gtor ma) based on three skulls, flanked on the left by a flayed head with eyes, nose and teeth recognizable, and flanked on the right by a skull bowl supported by three skulls. From the skull bowl issues smoke or nectar. At the top of the offering cake, within the upper triangle is a chopper surmounting a skull bowl. There is a trident, a victory banner, rams and lions with lolling tongues, bulls and a makara (fabulous sea-creature). There are birds holding entrails in their bills. At the top are garlands of entrails. In the loops of two of them are human heads, one with a moustache and one bearded. Floating at the bottom is a naked human being

Publication/Creation

[Tibet]

Physical description

1 painting : distemper on linen ; distemper 47 x 31 cm

References note

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, pp. 101-102, thankas banners and paintings no. 46

Reference

Wellcome Collection 47091i

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