Portrait of a Lama

18th century

60.5 cm 127.5 cm 2.5 cm

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This finely detailed painting features a portrait of a lama surrounded by other figures, including monks, divinized teachers, celestial beings, enlightened deities, and a Buddha. Seated on a throne before an altar, the lama holds the stems of two lotuses, the blossoms of which...

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Owned by a monk from a Tibetan monastery, Darjeeling, West Bengal; given to Walter Hauser [1], Charlottesville, Virginia, 1964; given to Walters Art Museum, 2016.[1] While living in north India
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