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The Miniature Paintings of Mongolian Buddhism:
Tsaklis, Thangkas and Burhany Zurags
by Stevan Davies
Professor of Religious Studies, Misericordia University
TsongKapa (Tibetan) / Zonkhow (Mongolian) TsongKapa has a copy of the Prajnaparamita sutra atop a lotus to his left and a sword arising from a lotus to his right. These are standard iconographic symbols for the Bodhisattva of Wisdom, Manjusri, for TsongKapa is considered to have been an incarnation of Manjusri. |