Tibet/Nepal/Bhutan

PALDEN LHAMO is the fierce protectress of Tibet and the Dalai Lama. She rides a mule and sits on a tiger skin. She holds a sword to cut through ignorance and carries a skull bowl filled with blood.
Tibet , 19th CE. Bronze, British Museum
 

 

PRAJNAPARAMITA is the red multi-armed wisdom goddess of Nepal. Crowned and seated on her lotus throne, she initiates humans with wisdom.
Nepal, 16th CE, Painted Wood
 

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TARA is the compassionate Great Mother of Buddhism and the Himalayn kingdoms of Bhutan, Nepal, and Tibet.
Contemporary woodcut.
 

 
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VajravarahiDiamond Sow of the Knife, is a dancing yogini. She raises her right arm with a vajra thunderbolt knife to cut through ignorance.
Tibet,, 13th CE. Bronze, McCormick Collection
 

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VASUDHARAis the goddess of abundance. Sitting on her lotus throne she holds her gifts in her multiple arms.
Nepal, 1086 CE, Smithsonian Museum
 

 
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The Himalayan banners flew at Dwarika's
and the Patan Museum in Kathmandu, Nepal October 8 - 21, 2000.
Small prayer flag versions were gifted to sacred sites in Tibet, Nepal and Bhutan.

 

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