Item: Tonpa Shenrab (Founder of Bon) - (main form)

Shenrab Miwo - the Teacher, founder of the religion of Yungdrung Bon surrounded by 250 Enlightened Ones (Tibetan: sang gye) and belonging to the set of Four Transcendent Lords.

Iconographic Elements of the Painting: Size, Descending Order & Hierarchy:
- Tonpa Shenrab (central image)
- Two hundred & Fifty Enlightened Ones (registers)
- Wrathful One (bottom center)
- Donor figures (bottom left)

Artistic Elements of the Composition:
- Subject: figurative
- Composition Type: Registers
- Ground Colour: Multi-coloured
- Painting Style:
- Region: Dolpo, Southern Himalayas, Nepal
- Date: 17th/18th century
- Inscriptions: name inscription bottom left
- Back of Painting: mantras
- Artist: unknown at this time
- Comparables by Subject: numerous
- Comparables by Style: numerous

The inscription at the bottom left reads: homage to Kyungpo Yungdrung Gyaltsen! Homage to Kyungpo Dragpa Tsultrim! Homage to Yangton Rinchen Lhundrub!

Jeff Watt 2-2016

Front of Painting
English Translation of Inscription: Homage to Kyungpo Yungdrung Gyaltsen! Homage to Kyungpo Dragpa Tsultrim! Homage to Yangton Rinchen Lhundrub!

Wylie Transliteration of Inscription: khyung po gyung drung rgyal mtsan la na mo. kyung po grags pa khrims la na mo. yang ton rin chen lhun grub la na mo.