Central Tibet Mandalas.

Posted by Alex in Arts & Crafts, Religion on September 16, 2006 at 8:05 pm


Asianart has a neat collection of early paintings from Central Tibet, depicting various aspects of Buddhism.

This one is a 14th century mandala of Mahavajrabhairava (the Great Diamond-like Ferocious One), a wrathful manifestation of the bodhisattva Manjusri (what’s a bodhisattva? Wikipedia has got the answer)

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