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Eleven-Headed Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara; Tibet; 14th-15th century; pigments on cloth; Rubi…

Eleven-Headed Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara

14th-15th century

Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art

Eleven-Headed Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara

19th century

Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art

Eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara

18th century

Four-armed Avalokiteshvara; Tibet; 16th century; copper alloy with mineral pigments, semi-preci…

Four-armed Avalokiteshvara

16th century

Photograph by Bruce M. White, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2008.

Eight Great Tantric Adepts (From a Pelpung Monastery eleven-painting set of The Eighty-four Great Tantric Adepts)

19th century

Photography by David De Armas Photography. The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. 2012.

Six-armed Avalokiteshvara Triad

11th century

Photography by David De Armas Photography. The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. 2016.

Raven-headed Mahakala

early to mid-19th century

Frontispiece from The Great Destroyer of the Thousand Foes (Mahasahasrapramardani) Sutra Manusc…

Frontispiece from The Great Destroyer of the Thousand Foes (Mahasahasrapramardani) Sutra Manuscript

ca. 13th-14th century

Photograph by Bruce M. White, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2009

Six-Armed Mahakala

15th century

Photograph by Bruce M. White, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2009

Six-Armed White Mahakala

late 18th – early 19th century

Photography by Bruce M. White Photography. The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. 2008.

Nine-deity Mandala of Two-armed Hevajra

15th century

Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art

Four-Armed Mahakala

18th century