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

Black Cloak Mahakala

19th century

Photograph by David De Armas, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2014

Black Cloak Mahakala

Situ Panchen

18th century

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

Black Hayagriva

15th century

Photography by David De Armas Photography. The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art. 2018.

Red-and-Black-Faced Yamari, "Blazing Razor of Extreme Repelling"

ca. late 17th 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

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

Raven-headed Mahakala

early to mid-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

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

Tiger Riding Mahakala

Early 19th century

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

Sakya Pandita (1182-1251) and Chogyel Phakpa (1235-1280) with Mahakala Lineage Masters

17th - 18th century