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    "localId": "25543",
    "label": "Protector Deity Palden Lhamo with Entourage",
    "core": "obj",
    "dtoType": "drawing",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.327"
}

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    "id": "25543",
    "sourceUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.327",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "stage": "normalized",
    "title": "Protector Deity Palden Lhamo with Entourage",
    "description": "With a roaring cackle and a deafening shriek, Palden Lahmo rides a flying mule across waves of blood and fire, wielding a menacing chopper, skull cup, and trident. Palden Lhamo, the protector goddess of the Tibetan city of Lhasa and of the Dalai Lama—the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people—was married to a bloodthirsty king. She warned her husband that unless he ceased inflicting misery on others, she would kill their only son. When the king refused, she carried out her threat: she murdered their son, skinned him, drank his blood, and then rode away on a mule using her son’s flayed skin as the saddle blanket.Delicately rendered in gold on a nearly black background, the composition requires a sustained gaze to distinguish the figures of Palden Lahmo and her companions from the flames, smoke, and mists that encircle them.",
    "provenance": "Stuart Perrin, New York; purchased by John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore, March 25 1984.",
    "date": "late 17th century",
    "citationUrl": "https://purl.thewalters.org/art/35.327",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "genreSpecific": [
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        "tangkas",
        "tankas",
        "thangkas",
        "thankas"
    ],
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    "imageCount": 4,
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    "source": "import",
    "dimensions": [
        {
            "units": "cm",
            "width": 106,
            "height": 50.8
        }
    ],
    "dimensionsRaw": "H: 41 3/4 x W: 20 in. (106 x 50.8 cm); Framed: 42 1/2 × 26 × 2 in. (107.95 × 66.04 × 5.08 cm)"
}

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    "cul": "Buddhist",
    "med": "tempera and gold on cloth",
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    ],
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    ],
    "exhibition_ids": [
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    ]
}

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