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    Ajita
    
(painting no. 166)

Collection: Shelley & Donald Rubin
Origin: Central Tibet
Date: 1600-1699
Size: 69x59cm (27.5x23.5in)
Paint: Ground Mineral Pigment, Fine Gold Line
Ground Material: Cotton
Painting School: Khyenri


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Ajita is said to bestow the ability to enter into meditation and grants protection and steadfast devotion to practice. The iconography is somewhat unusual here in that he holds a scroll as opposed to the usual mudra of meditation.

M. Mokotoff 5-98


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