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Photograph by Gavin Ashworth, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2014

Photograph by Gavin Ashworth, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2014

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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

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

King of Shambhala, (From a Pelpung set of The Kalkin Kings of Shambhala)

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, 2009

Padmasambhava, Pema Jungne

late 18th-19th century

Shakyamuni Buddha, Jataka (Previous Lives); eastern Tibet; 19th century; pigments on cloth; Rub…

Past Lives of Shakyamuni Buddha
After Situ’s set of the Past Lives of Shakyamuni Buddha

19th century

The Fifth Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso (1617-1682) with Previous Incarnations; Central Ti…

The Fifth Dalai Lama, Ngawang Lobzang Gyatso (1617-1682) with Previous Incarnations

18th century

Photograph by David De Armas, Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, 2013.

late 18th - 19th century