Chana Dorjé, Wielder of the Indestructible

Daten.d.

Artist Tibetan (Tibetan, NA)

CultureTibetan

MediumDistemper on cloth

DimensionsImage: 12 x 8 3/4 in. (30.5 x 22.2 cm)
Framed: 21 x 17 1/4 x 1 3/4 in. (53.3 x 43.8 x 4.4 cm)

Credit LineThe Jack Shear Collection of Tibetan Art, a partnership between The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, The Tang Museum at Skidmore College, and the Williams College Museum of Art.

On View

Not on view

Periodlate 18th c - early 19th c

Classification(s)

Textile

BibliographyBogin, Benjamin, Maki, Ariana, and Seligman, Rachel (eds.). Forms of Awakening: Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection. A partnership between The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY); The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY); Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA). New York, NY: Delmonico Books, 2024, p. 155 repr

Vassar Exhibitions

Mastery and Merit: Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection

Exhibition HistoryMastery and Merit: Tibetan Art from the Jack Shear Collection, March 5 - July 31, 2022
DescriptionLikely Drukpa Kagyu tradition. While Avalokiteshvara is the embodiment of compassion, Vajrapani is the embodiment of power, specifically the power to remove obstacles, both internal and external.

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