Himalayan Art Resources

Item: Indian Adept (siddha)

རྒྱ་གར་གྱི་གྲུབ་ཆེན། 印度大成就者
(item no. 15434)
Origin Location Eastern Tibet
Date Range 1960 -
Lineages Buddhist
Material Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Collection Shechen Archives - photographs
Notes about the Central Figure

Classification: Person

Interpretation / Description

Eighty-four Mahasiddha of the Abhayadatta System based on the depictions documented by Jonang Taranata (1575-1635) as commissioned and painted as murals in the Ganden Puntsogling Monastery, Tibet. (See Abhayadatta Outline Page).

This painting belongs to an eleven painting set and depicts eight Indian adepts, siddhas, from early in the list following the Abhayadatta system: numbers 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 60. The composition is the 8th painting (R4) in the set and placed 3rd to to the proper right of the central painting.

Numbered List:
Top center: Sarvanivarana Vishkambhin Bodhisattva
53. Jogipa
54. Chelukapa
55. Godhuripa
56. Luchikapa
57. Nirgunapa
58. Jayananda
59. Pacharipa
60. Champaka

Jeff Watt 6-2009

Secondary Images
Related Items
Thematic Sets
Collection: Private 4 (84 Mahasiddhas)
Collection of Shechen Archives: Gallery I
Indian Adept Main Page (Mahasiddha)
Painting Set: Indian Adepts (84) - Palpung Composition