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- 35mm slide: 19803
- World Region
- Asia
- Region
- South Asia
- Country
- Tibet
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- Paldan Lhamo, Defender of the Law, is the only female member of the Dharmapala. She rides a white mule covered with the skin of her son, over a sea of blood strewn with corpses and black animals representing demons. She has two arms and three eyes and wears a skull-crown and jewelry. At the top is a monk of the Yellow-Cap sect. The background is adorned with symbolic flames.
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- Photographer (UMMA Artifact): Clahassey, Kay
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- UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology
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- 2708 x 4953
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- 18945
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"Paldan Lhamo, Defender of the Law, is the only female member of the Dharmapala. She rides a white mule covered with the skin of her son, over a sea of blood strewn with corpses and black animals representing demons. She has two arms and three eyes and wears a skull-crown and jewelry. At the top is a monk of the Yellow-Cap sect. The background is adorned with symbolic flames.". In the digital collection UM Museum of Anthropological Archaeology. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/a/anthro1ic/x-18945/18945. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. April 24, 2024.