Item: Indian Adept (siddha) - Virupa
| Origin Location | Tibet |
|---|---|
| Date Range | 1200 - 1299 |
| Lineages | Sakya and Buddhist |
| Size | 55.90x49.80cm (22.01x19.61in) |
| Material | Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton |
| Collection | Kronos Collection |
Virupa, Yogeshvara (Tibetan: nal jor wang chug bir wa pa. English: the Lord of Yoga, Ugly One): foremost in magical attainments among all the siddhas. He is surrounded in registers on all sides by the Eighty-four Great Siddhas of India and beyond.
Essay: A Mystery Solved
Video: Two Important Virupa Paintings
An inscription written on the reverse claims that the painting had been blessed by Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen (1182-1251).
"The Great Lord of Yoga Birwapa surrounded by the Eighty Mahasiddhas. The ritual sanctification was performed by the Lord of Dharma Sakya Pandita.'
(See HAR on Patreon for an essay and video of this painting).
Jeff Watt 11-2021
Translation of the Inscription Line 1 རྣལ་འབྱོར་གྱི་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཆེན་པོ་ The Great Lord of Yoga [Yogeshvara] Line 2 འབིར་བ་ལ་འཁོར་གྲུབ་ཆེན་བརྒྱད་བཅུས་བསྐོར་བ Virupa and/with the 80 Mahasiddhas surrounding Line 3 འདིའི་རབ་དུ་གནས་པའི་ཆོ་ག་ཆོས་རྗེ་ས་སྐྱ་པཎྜིཏ་མཛད This ritual sanctification [was] done by the Dharma Lord Sakya Pandita
Shinzo Shiratori 9-2024
Essay: A Masterwork Depicting Tantric Masters of the Sakya Tradition by Jane Casey
Publication: Sacred Visions
Contents: Mahasiddha List (Buton Rinchen Drub)
Thematic Sets
Subject: Composition - Registers
Indian Adept (Mahasiddha): Painting (Early Period 11th-14th)
Subject: Travel Bag (Monks & Siddhas)
Subject: Three Great Nepalese Style Paintings
Indian Adept: Virupa - A Mystery Solved
Indian Adept: Virupa (Left Pointing Gesture)
Indian Adept: Virupa Art History
Video: Religious Context (YouTube)
Nepal: Masterworks (Painting)
Indian Adept: Virupa Main Page
Indian Adept: Virupa (Siddha Sets)
Indian Adept: Virupa (Paintings)
Indian Adept: Virupa (Painting Masterworks)
Buddhist Deity: Vajradhara & the Eighty-four Mahasiddhas (Single Composition)
Indian Adept: Siddha Appearance Masterworks (Painting)
Indian Adept: Hands of the Dakini/Deity
Subject: Inscriptions (Historical Information)
Subject: Sakya/Shalu Mahasiddha System
Publication: A Concise History of the Glorious Sakyapa School
Region: Nepal, Miscellaneous Subjects
Exhibition: Mandalas, Mapping the Buddhist Art of Tibet (Teachers)