A TIBETAN PAINTING OF USNIS

DISTEMPER ON CLOTH

SOUTHERN TIBET

CIRCA 18TH CENTURY

IMAGE 11.5” x 15.0”: SILK BROCADE 20.0’ x 27.5”

EXHIBITED: Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, Spring 1971

Lycoming College Gallery, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Fall 1981

DESCRIPTION: : A Thanka of the victorious goddess of Usnis Three heads, eight arms seated in dhyanasana (meditative position). Original hands in dharmacakra mudra (both hands against breast, left covering right). Next pair hold kalasa (vase for holding ambrosia) and varada mudra ; that is the palm of the hand down. The next two hold the image of the Lord Buddha and salutation mudra. The other two hold capa and sara.

Tibetan name: gTug-tor rm-par rgyal-ma (tsug-tor nam-pa gyal-ma).

Placed in private collection