Item: Hayagriva (Buddhist Deity) - Black

Tibetan: རྟ་མགྲིན། ནང་ལྷ། Chinese: 马头明王（佛教本尊）

(item no. 15229)

Origin Location	Eastern Tibet
Date Range	1800 - 1899
Lineages	Nyingma and Karma (Kagyu)
Material	Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Collection	Shechen Archives - photographs

Classification: Deity

Appearance: Wrathful

Gender: Male

Interpretation / Description

Hayagriva, Blue, Riding a Tiger (Tibetan: tam drin ngon po, tag shon. English: the Blue Horse-necked One Riding a Tiger): surrounded by numerous retiue figures, and lamas seated above and protectors below; from the Lama Gongdu cycle of terma.

Sanggye Lingpa (1340-1396) discovered the 'Middling Collection of Precepts, the Gathering of the Guru's Intention' (Tibetan: ka du bar wa la ma gong pa du pa) in the great cave of Puri Rinchen Barwa in the year 1364.

Jeff Watt 11-2000

Secondary Images