All tours · TOUR 11

Paintings of India and the Himalayas

Buddhist paintings from Nepal and Tibet, and the myths and kings painted by Indian court artists.

Rooms 1 and 2 are free for everyone.

From room 3, a Pyeongye subscription opens the rest. Every room has notes on reading its painting.

Chakrasamvara MandalaUnknown artist · Nepal1Buddha Amoghasiddhi with Eight BodhisattvasUnknown artist · Central Tibet2Acala, The Buddhist ProtectorUnknown artist · Nepal, Kathmandu Valley3Mahasiddha JnanatapaUnknown artist · Eastern Tibet, Kham, Riwoche monastery4Lineage Portrait of an AbbotUnknown artist · Central Tibet5Thousand-Armed Chenresi, a Cosmic Form of the Bodhisattva AvalokiteshvaraUnknown artist · Tibet6Ushnishavijaya Enthroned in the Womb of a StupaUnknown artist · Nepal7Krishna and Balarama Fight the Evil King Kamsa’s Wrestlers: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata PuranaUnknown artist · India (Madhya Pradesh, Malwa)8Buddha Shakyamuni as "Lord of the Munis"Unknown artist · Western Tibet, Guge9Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize StallionStipple Master10Rama Releases the Demon Spies Shuka and Sarana: Folio from the Siege of Lanka seriesManaku11Mahadevi, the Great GoddessUnknown artist · India (Rajasthan, Bikaner)12Pichhwai for the Festival of CowsUnknown artist · India, Deccan, Aurangabad (?)13I'timad-ud-Daula's Tomb at AgraUnknown artist · India14Maharana Sarup Singh Inspects a Prize StallionTara15
  1. 1Chakrasamvara MandalaUnknown artist · Nepal · ca. 1100Free
  2. 2Buddha Amoghasiddhi with Eight BodhisattvasUnknown artist · Central Tibet · ca. 1200–50Free
  3. 3Acala, The Buddhist ProtectorUnknown artist · Nepal, Kathmandu Valley · equivalent to February / March 1322Members
  4. 4Mahasiddha JnanatapaUnknown artist · Eastern Tibet, Kham, Riwoche monastery · ca. 1350Members
  5. 5Lineage Portrait of an AbbotUnknown artist · Central Tibet · ca. 1350Members
  6. 6Thousand-Armed Chenresi, a Cosmic Form of the Bodhisattva AvalokiteshvaraUnknown artist · Tibet · 14th centuryMembers
  7. 7Ushnishavijaya Enthroned in the Womb of a StupaUnknown artist · Nepal · dated 1510–19Members
  8. 8Krishna and Balarama Fight the Evil King Kamsa’s Wrestlers: Page from a Dispersed Bhagavata PuranaUnknown artist · India (Madhya Pradesh, Malwa) · ca. 1650Members
  9. 9Buddha Shakyamuni as "Lord of the Munis"Unknown artist · Western Tibet, Guge · mid-17th centuryMembers
  10. 10Maharana Sangram Singh Riding a Prize StallionStipple Master · ca. 1712Members
  11. 11Rama Releases the Demon Spies Shuka and Sarana: Folio from the Siege of Lanka seriesManaku · ca. 1725Members
  12. 12Mahadevi, the Great GoddessUnknown artist · India (Rajasthan, Bikaner) · ca. 1725Members
  13. 13Pichhwai for the Festival of CowsUnknown artist · India, Deccan, Aurangabad (?) · late 18th centuryMembers
  14. 14I'timad-ud-Daula's Tomb at AgraUnknown artist · India · c. 1820Members
  15. 15Maharana Sarup Singh Inspects a Prize StallionTara · 1845–46Members
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