The Potala Palace and the main Monuments of Lhasa – Works – Rubin

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Photograph by Bruce M. White, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2010

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Lobsang Drubjam Tsering; Medicine Buddha Palace (Copy of first painting from the set of the Tib…

Medicine Buddha Palace (Copy of first painting from the set of the Tibetan Medical Paintings from Mentsikhang Lhasa)

2012-2013

Four-Armed Avalokiteshvara in his Pure Realm; Tibet; late 18th - early 19th century; pigments o…

Avalokiteshvara in his Potala Pure Land

late 18th–early 19th century

Photograph by Jean Vong, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2013.

Palace of the Buddha, Bhaisajyaguru, Master of Remedies (chapter 1)

Hua Khar

1995-1996

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

Avalokiteshvara in his Potala Pure Realm

19th century

Palace of the Protector Begtse

Palace of the Protector Begtse

19th century

Photograph by David De Armas, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2018

Phakpa Lokeshvara of Lhasa

Date uncertain

Buchung Nubgya (b. 1979, Shigatse; lives and works in New York); Life Story of Nangsa Wobum; Ne…

Life Story of Nangsa Wobum

Buchung Nubgya

2020

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

Situ Panchen (1700-1774); From a Palpung set of Masters of the Combined Kagyu Lineages

late 18th century, ca. 1760s

Indrabhuti, from a set of the Eight Great Adepts (Mahasiddhas); Kham Province, Eastern Tibet; 1…

Indrabhuti, from a set of the Eight Great Adepts (Mahasiddhas)

19th century

Photograph by Bruce M. White, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2010

Avalokiteshvara, according to the practice tradition of Emperor Songtsen Gampo (617-650)

13th century

Photograph by David De Armas, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2023

Yaksha General Anila

First half of the 15th century

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

Third Pawo Rinpoche, Tsuklak Gyatso (1568-1630) with his Handprints and Footprints

early to mid-17th century