A THANGKA DEPICTING MYSTIC MASTER HUMKARA Tibet, Circa 1600
the master adorned with bone jewellery and a flower garland crown, black hair drawn up through a triratna symbol topped with a sun and crescent moon, wearing a pink dhoti and flowing green scarf, holding vajra and kapala and seated on an antelope skin placed on a rocky outcrop within a charnel ground, a stupa and a tree with Ganapati in the branches to the right, Namkay Nyingpo wearing a pandita cap seated on a yellow cushion beneath, with deities in yab-yum seated on a recumbent Ganapati, and nagaraja emerging from waters below with a dancing blue attendant deity
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 19843.
11 1/2 by 9 1/2 in. (29.5 by 24.5 cm)
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the master adorned with bone jewellery and a flower garland crown, black hair drawn up through a triratna symbol topped with a sun and crescent moon, wearing a pink dhoti and flowing green scarf, holding vajra and kapala and seated on an antelope skin placed on a rocky outcrop within a charnel ground, a stupa and a tree with Ganapati in the branches to the right, Namkay Nyingpo wearing a pandita cap seated on a yellow cushion beneath, with deities in yab-yum seated on a recumbent Ganapati, and nagaraja emerging from waters below with a dancing blue attendant deity
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 19843.
11 1/2 by 9 1/2 in. (29.5 by 24.5 cm)