Padmasambhava - Guru Drakpo

This 20th century painting depicts Padmasambhava in wrathful form as Guru Dragpo, in the treasure tradition of Padmasambhava biographer Nyangrel Nyima Ozer.

Source:

Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, gift of the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation
Guru Drakpo, a Wrathful Form of Padmasambhava
Tibet, 20th century
Pigments on cloth, 49 5/8 × 30 3/4 in. (estimated)
C2006.66.3
https://rubinmuseum.org/collection/c2006-66-3/

Depicted in this piece:

  • 'gyur med mthu stobs rnam rgyal
  • d+harma shrI
  • Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Taye
  • pad+ma 'gyur med rgya mtsho
  • Padmasambhava
  • rin chen rnam rgyal
  • Terdak Lingpa
  • The Fifth Shechen Rabjam, Pema Tekchok Tenpai Gyeltsen
  • The Second Shechen Gyeltsab, Pema Sangngak Tenzin Chogyel
  • Vairocana
  • Yeshe Tsogyel