Avalokiteshvara, Chaturbhuja (English: the All Seeing Lord with Four Hands). This painting is a rare composition depicting the teaching lineage tradition of the Tsembupa Martri of the Sakya School of Tibetan Buddhism. The Martri is a teaching focused on the special tantric methods of practice associated with Avalokiteshvara. (For more information, click on the image below.)


Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Artist: Pema Rinzin

CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

Female Buddhas
Trammell Crow, Dallas

Mongolia: Beyond Chinggis Khan, Rubin Museum of Art, New York

Pema Rinzin: Artist in Residence, Rubin Museum of Art, New York

Repatriation Collection, Tibet House, New York

Tibet – Monasteries Open Their Treasure Chambers, Museum of Asian Art, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany

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The Capital Museum, Beijing

Dolanji Monastery (Initiation Cards)

Katimari Collection

National Museum of India, New Delhi

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Bodhisattva

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Shakyamuni Buddha

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Tibetan and Himalayan Portraits
Nomads of Tibet and Bhutan
by Daniel Miller

Astasahasrika Prajnaparamita Manuscript from the Yarlung Museum, Tsethang, TAR.
by Eva Allinger