Tanka of a Karmapa Abbot

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Description

Title: Tanka of a Karmapa Abbot
Published / Created: circa 1700-circa 1900
Description: A watercolor painting on cotton that depicts an unidentified Karmapa abbot wearing a red hat and seated, as well as accompanied by smaller figures, including a lama and protective divinities. Consecrated on the verso by a lama. Depiction of a stupa and inscriptions in Tibetan on verso. Accompanied with an envelope from Hotel Mount Everest, Darjeeling, India, with notes about the tanka.
Provenance: Acquired from various sources. For further information consult entries for individual tankas in the guide to the collection., Gift of Orson L. St. John, 1985.
Language: Tibetan
Sanskrit

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

Tibet MSS 62

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Container / Volume

Box 38 (Oversize)

Access: Public
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Citation: Tanka Collection. General Collection of Books and Manuscripts, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.