Raven-headed Mahakala – Works – Rubin

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

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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, Thousand-Armed Avalokiteshvara

early 20th century (before 1935)

Photograph by David De Armas, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2017

Seven Ishvaris (Animal-Headed Yoginis); Text and Illuminations of the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Intermediate State (Bardo)

ca. 15th century

Photograph by David De Armas, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2017

Seven Ishvaris (Animal-Headed Yoginis); Text and Illuminations of the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Intermediate State (Bardo)

ca. 15th century

Photograph by David De Armas, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2017

Seven Ishvaris (Animal-Headed Yoginis); Text and Illuminations of the Hundred Peaceful and Wrathful Deities of the Intermediate State (Bardo)

ca. 15th century

Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art

Eleven-headed Avalokiteshvara

18th century

Mandala of Chart, Yantra Diagram; Tibet; 18th century; ground mineral pigment on cotton; Rubin …

Canopy of a Mahakala Yantra

18th–19th century

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

Mahakala and Protector Deities

early 19th century

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

Six-Armed Mahakala

15th century

Photography by David De Armas, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2017.

Panjarnatha Mahakala

early 18th century, ca. 1720

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

Six-Armed White Mahakala

late 18th – early 19th century