A THANGKA DEPICTING PANDITA PADMASAMBHAVA Tibet or Bhutan, 18th Century

wearing an orange pandita cap with long lappets and monk’s attire, holding vajra and kapala with a khatvanga at the shoulder, a pitaka basket and kalasha to his left and bilva fruit in a lapis lazuli bowl before him, seated on cushions within a golden cave, with blue Buddha Samantabhadra above flanked by Oddiyana Vajradhara to the left and Pema Jungne to the right, the pandita flanked by Loden Chogse to the left and Pema Gyalpo to the right, with Longchempa and Tenzin Legpé Dondrup to the left and right beneath Padmasambhava, and Nyima Ozer, Sengge Dradog, Dorje Drolo and Shakya Sengge from left to right below, all set in mountainous landscape with the twelve protector goddesses including the Four Great Demons, the Four Great Yakshis and the Four Great Menmos appearing throughout, adepts meditating in caves and a lama flying above

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 18350.
27 1/2 by 16 3/4 in. (70 by 40 cm)