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The Buddha Sakyamuni seated on a lotus in a landscape containing scenes of his life and death. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.

Tibetan paintings : a study of Tibetan thankas, eleventh to nineteenth centuries / Pratapaditya Pal.

Tibetan medical thangka of the four medical tantras / translator and compiler of the original edition: Byams-pa ʼPhrin-las, Wang Lei ; English translator and annotator Cai Jingfeng.

Art of Thangka : a catalogue of the Hahn Foundation for Museum / text by Tanaka Kimiaki.

Tibetan Thangka painting : methods & materials / David P. Jackson, Janice A. Jackson.

Secret revelation of Tibetan thangkas = Verborgene Botschaft tibetischer Thangkas : picture meditation and interpretation of Lamaist cult paintings this work is based on the John Gilmore Ford Collection / Detlef-Ingo Lauf ; [ins Engl. übertr. von J.A. Underwood].

Tibetan medicine and its divine origins. Distemper painting by Chundu, 1970.

Attributes of the six-handed Mahākāla in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.

Yama holding the wheel of life. Distemper painting.

Attributes of dPal-ldan Lha-mo in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.

Footprints of the Buddha or of a Lama (?). Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.

Episodes in the life of gYu-thog Yon-tan mGon-po (Yuthok) and his ancestors. Distemper painting by Chundu, 1970.

Attributes of Kubera in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.

The three Buddhist deities Vajrapāṇi, Mañjuśrī and Avalokiteśvara. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.

Attributes of Ma-cig dpal-gyi Lha-mo in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.

Blue lotus protective triangle. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.

The Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara surrounded by other Buddhist deities. Distemper painting.

The Buddha Aksobhya surrounded by six hundred and ten replicas of himself. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.

Attributes of rDo-rje Grags-mo brGyal (Dorje Dragmogyel) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.

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The Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara surrounded by other Buddhist deities. Distemper painting.

The Buddha Aksobhya surrounded by six hundred and ten replicas of himself. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.

Attributes of rDo-rje Grags-mo brGyal (Dorje Dragmogyel) in a "rgyan tshogs" banner. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.

The Bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara surrounded by other Buddhist deities. Distemper painting.

The three Buddhist deities Vajrapāṇi, Mañjuśrī and Avalokiteśvara. Distemper painting by a Tibetan painter.