Dimensions: 124" L x 89-1/2" W

18th C Qing Dynasty Chinese Sino-Tibetan woven silk Thangka. Vertical rectangular panel, masterly seemed with metallic silk thread portraying the Hayagriva 'Secret Accomplishment' (Tibetan: tam drin sang drup. English: Horse Neck): terrific deity of the Padma (Lotus) Family, manifestation of the wrathful activity of Buddha Amitabha, from the Terma (Treasure) Tradition of Kyergangpa, 12th century.King of the Wrathful, Hayagriva, with a body red in color, three faces and six hands. The main face is red, right green, left white. Each face has three eyes, radiant, with bared fangs. The hair, moustache and beard are blazing. At the crest of the three faces are three green horse heads with mouths sounding with the neighing of horses. ... With six hands, the first right holds a vajra, second a katvanga, third a sword. The first left a wrathful gesture, second a spear, third a lasso of intestine. Having a crown of five dry human skulls and a necklace of fifty fresh, wearing an upper garment of human skin and an elephant hide, and a lower garment of tiger skin; with a Brahman cord of human hair. Adorned with drops of blood, clots of mold, bunches of charnel ashes and coils of snakes. The eight legs trample upon the eight great nagas in the aspect of snakes; standing in the vast blazing fire of pristine awareness.Directly above, within a sphere of rainbow light is the Buddha Amitabha, Lord of the Padma Family, red in color, with the two hands folded in the mudra of meditation placed in the lap - holding a black begging bowl.At the bottom center is the avowed protector Gyalpo Pehar, dark blue in color with one face and two hands, holding a noose in the right and a knife in the left. Wearing long dark garments and a large round hat he rides on the back of a white elephant trampling on a corpse. To the left is the protector Begtse Chen, red with one face and two hands, holding a sword in the right and a heart in the left. Wearing the garb of a Tibetan warrior he is standing on a horse and human corpse; the special protector for the Hayagriva cycle of practice. To the right is Garwai Nagpo, chief attendant to the protector Dorje Legpa, dark in color, holding a hammer in the right hand and a blacksmith's bellows in the left. Wearing long garments he rides atop a shaggy brown goat.The 'Secret Accomplishment' Hayagriva, practiced in all schools of Tibetan Buddhism, is a Treasure Teaching of the Nyingmapa discovered by Nyemowa Sanggye Wangchen. The Shangpa Kagyu master Kyergangpa acquired the teaching directly from Padmasambhava in a dream and was further instructed to receive the teaching of the 'Terma' from Nyemowa. The practice was then made famous throughout Tibet by the lama Kyergangpa.

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