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Guru Rinpoche (Padmasambhava). Gouache painting by a Tibetan artist.

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[between 1800 and 1899?]

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Guru Rinpoche (Tibetan "Precious teacher"), known in Sanskrit as Padma Sambhava ("Born of a lotus"), referring to his miraculous birth from lotus blossom. Founder of the Nyingmapa school of Buddhism in Tibet

Publication/Creation

[Tibet], [between 1800 and 1899?]

Physical description

1 painting : gouache, with watercolour ; image 53.7 x 36.7 cm

Reference

Wellcome Library no. 580114i

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