Deities & Founding Teachers Card Set
These images are from a set of modern cards printed on paper depicting groups of three deities, or groups of three individuals - founding teachers of Tibetan Buddhism. Many of the most common and essential visual topics of Tibetan iconography are represented in these images. The full set, arranged in groups of three, also re-enforces the importance of knowing the Iconographic Number Sets in Himalayan and Tibetan art. (See Number Sets Main Page and Number Sets Outline Page).
Just as in learning arithmetic and advanced mathematics without knowing the definitions of numbers and sets and without knowing the multiplication tables and division tables - there is no proficiency. So it is with iconography in Himalayan and Tibetan art. Without knowing the iconographic number sets - there is no proficiency.