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Category: Art and iconography

Ornaments & it’s Significance of the wrathful Deities of Buddhist Pantheon

8 Jul 20198 Jul 2019 snyenda1 Comment

  The deities of the Buddhist pantheon are adorned with different types of bone and other ornaments that are significant to their wrathfulness. However, all these ornaments come in set with their symbolic meanings. A standard set of ornaments are worn by the deities that are both peaceful and wrathful. For the wrathful deities, eight [...]

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རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ། Understanding Vajrakīla

18 Jun 201918 Jun 2019 snyendaLeave a comment

The cycle of Vajrakīla deities come with Palchen Dorje Zhonu (Vajrakumāra) as the central figure with four or five sons depending on the traditions. The sons are mostly depicted with their lower part as kīla nailing down the evil forces. There are then the ten wrathful emanations with a executioners (gsod byed) and a Devourers [...]

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Use of the Thangkas in a Ritual Space

16 Jun 20198 Jul 2019 snyendaLeave a comment

Thangka is a Himalayan Buddhist scroll painting on cotton normally depicting deities, teachers, mandalas, and so on. It is decorated with silk with neatly stitched  strips at the four sides called Juru Merser and a rectangular piece at the bottom of the image called Thong. The significance of Juru Merser and Thong is not known. [...]

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