Initiation Cards (Tsakalis), early 15th century, Tibet, Opaque watercolor on paper, Each 6 1/4 x 5 3/4 in. (16 x 14.5 cm), Paintings, Tsakali cards were used by itinerant teachers moving from one monastery to another in order to evoke Vajrayana Buddhist deities. When laid on the ground in the form of a mandala, as seen here, they functioned to create a fixed sacred space like that of a temple
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