Photo, Print, Drawing Dpag bsam ʾkhri shing

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Title

  • Dpag bsam ʾkhri shing

Other Title

  • Dpag bsam ʾkhri śin
  • Mdzad brgya Dpag bsam ʾkhri shing

Summary

  • This 18th c. thangka (Tibetan painted scroll) is the central piece of a set known as Dzegye Paksam Trishing or "The wish-granting tree of a hundred lives." The set depicts the stories of the Buddhas's former births, or Jatakas, and is based on the Sanskrit work, Avadana-kalpa-lata written by a Kashmiri poet Ksemendra and completed by his son Somendra in 1052. This thangka illustrates the history of the textual transmission of the text. The central image is the historical Buddha Shakyamuni, surrounded by his disciples. Immediately above the Buddha is the 5th Dalai Lama, who supervised the printing of the bilingual Tibetan-Sanskrit edition of the text. Ksemendra is shown in the upper left cluster. All figures can be identified by the gold names beneath them. The thangka was commissioned by Phurchok Ngawang Jampa (1682-1762) and painted in the Menri tradition in the Jokhang Temple, Lhasa, from 1744 to 1746. It was donated to the Asian Division by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama Bstan-ʼdzin rgya mtsho in July, 2010.

Names

  • Bstan-ʼdzin-rgya-mtsho, Dalai Lama XIV, 1935- donor
  • Phur-bu-lcog Ngag-dbang-byams-pa, 1682-1762

Created / Published

  • [Tibet] : [producer not identified], [not after 1800]

Headings

  • -  Gautama Buddha--Pre-existence--Pictorial works
  • -  Gautama Buddha--Pre-existence
  • -  Tankas (Tibetan scrolls)--Washington (D.C.)--Early works to 1800

Notes

  • -  Title devised by cataloger.

Medium

  • 1 sheet ; 150 x 92 cm

Call Number/Physical Location

  • BQ930 .D73 1700z

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2011432260

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Chicago citation style:

Bstan-ʼDzin-Rgya-Mtsho, Dalai Lama Xiv, Donor, and Phur-Bu-Lcog Ngag-Dbang-Byams-Pa. Dpag Bsam ʾkhri Shing. Washington D.C, 1800. [Tibet: producer not identified, not after] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2011432260/.

APA citation style:

Bstan-ʼDzin-Rgya-Mtsho, D. L. X. & Phur-Bu-Lcog Ngag-Dbang-Byams-Pa. (1800) Dpag Bsam ʾkhri Shing. Washington D.C, 1800. [Tibet: producer not identified, not after] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2011432260/.

MLA citation style:

Bstan-ʼDzin-Rgya-Mtsho, Dalai Lama Xiv, Donor, and Phur-Bu-Lcog Ngag-Dbang-Byams-Pa. Dpag Bsam ʾkhri Shing. [Tibet: producer not identified, not after] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2011432260/>.