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    "localId": "23545",
    "label": "Mandala of Yamantaka (Conqueror of Death)",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.110"
}

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    "id": "23545",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.110",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Mandala of Yamantaka (Conqueror of Death)",
    "description": "In the top center of this work is Tsongkapa [Ts'on-k'a-pa] (1356-1418), the deified founder of the Gelugpa [Ge-lug-pa] (Yellow Cap) sect and incarnation of the Manjusri (God of Wisdom).",
    "provenance": "Mrs. Marguerite E. Blake [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, September 1967, by bequest.",
    "date": "18th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.110",
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    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "tankas"
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    "largeImageUrl": "https://art.thewalters.org/images/art/PL2_35.110_Fnt_BW_H67.jpg",
    "imageCount": 1,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 79.5,
            "height": 52.5
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H with ribbon and fabric borders: 31 5/16 x W: 20 11/16 in. (79.5 x 52.5 cm); Image H: 28 7/16 x W: 17 13/16 in. (72.2 x 45.3 cm); H with frame: 53 15/16 x W: 31 11/16 in. (137 x 80.5 cm); Outer border H: 31 x W: 20 1/8 in. (78.74 x 51.12 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Buddhist",
    "med": "opaque watercolor on cotton",
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    ]
}

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