Carlo Cristi

Bon tangka
Tibet
13th c.
Pigment on cotton, gold
16 1/2 x 19 3/4 in. cm. 35 x 50

Detail of a Bon tangka representing four lamas in teaching and debating mudra.

Among the rarest and finest Bon paintings
(missing one part on the right side).

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