Yungdron Dorje Pal (1284–1365) subduing a wrathful demon while attended by a meditation deity, Mahakala and other monks. / Workshop Unknown, Tibet or Nepal
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- Accession Number
- 1973/1.719
- Title
- Yungdron Dorje Pal (1284–1365) subduing a wrathful demon while attended by a meditation deity, Mahakala and other monks.
- Medium and Support
- ink and gouache on cotton
- Object Creation Date
- 1700-1750
- Credit Line
- Gift of Mrs. Josselyn Van Tyne
- Style/Group/Movement
- Buddhist thangka
- Dimensions
- 121.92 cm x 67.31 cm (48 in. x 26 1/2 in.)
- Century
- 18th-20th century
- Physical Description
- A portable painting done in ink and gouache on loose-weave, primed cotton, surround by two strips of fabric. This painting has suffered greatly from water damage, running the pigments together.
- Subject Matter
- A portrait of a lama (teacher), dressed in red and monk's robes and a red pandita (scholar's) hat, in confrontation with a blue-faced, three-eyed demon. The lama may be tentatively identified as the early 14th-century master Yungdron Dorje Pal. He is shown here holding a 'kila' dagger in his right hand, while he extends his right hand to offer a skull cup to the blue demon.
- Three monks in red robes, two of whom wear folded pandita hats, look on the scene from the lower left corner; in the lower right-hand corner, the blue-skinned dharmapala Mahakala tramples a prone figure. To the viewer's upper left is a meditation deity, a yab-yum pair with flame-red skin. At the upper right, a monk-scholar sits calmly within a blue orb, reading from a text.
- Other paintings with this same composition are illustated on http://wwe.himalayanart.org, as follows:
- • Rubin Museum of Art in New York City, acc. #F1997.9.1. A
- • Erie Art Museum (accession number not given), also in very poor condition
- • Tibet house Museum, New Delhi
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- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 1760 x 2633
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- 617 KB
- Record
- 1973/1.719
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"Yungdron Dorje Pal (1284–1365) subduing a wrathful demon while attended by a meditation deity, Mahakala and other monks.; Workshop Unknown, Tibet or Nepal." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-1973-sl-1.719/1973_1_719.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed March 29, 2024.