Portrait of Jnanatapa Attended by Lamas and Mahasiddhas, ca. 1350, Eastern Tibet, Kham, Riwoche monastery, Distemper on cloth, 27 x 21 1/2 in. (68.6 x 54.6 cm), Paintings, This portrait was created for Riwoche monastery in eastern Tibet, a branch of Taklung monastery. The central figure and the assembled abbots are not directly named on the painting. Nonetheless, two inscriptions allow a lineage identification: the epithet Jnanatapa (“heat of wisdom”) appears on the painting’s veil, a name denoting a famous Indian mahasiddha, the spiritual fathers of Tantric Buddhism
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