Item: Teacher (Lama) - Machig Labdron

Machig Labdron (1055-1149), 'the One Mother:' founder of the Cho Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. (See Machig Labdron Outline Page).

Machig Labdron is white in colour, peaceful, with one face and two hands standing in a dancing posture with the right leg drawn up. She holds upraised a drum in the right hand and a bell in the left, adorned with peaceful sambhogakaya ornaments. At the lower right and left are four smaller but similar looking dancing figures.

In the register at the top left is Prajnaparamita followed by Buddha Shakyamuni, two siddha type figures and four teachers in monastic attire. Descending on the right and left sides are monastic figures dressed in orange and red. To either side of the face of Machig in the inner registers are Padmasambhava and Padampa Sanggye. In the lower register on the far right side is a donor figure seated in front of a shrine. On the left side of that is a Yellow Jambhala wealth deity.

Jeff Watt [updated 1-2025]