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Dancing Ganesha Surrounded by Subsidiary Manifestations
Tuvdun Mongolian
Not on view
This sketch served as a preliminary drawing for a thangka painting. It shows Ganesha in his wrathful manifestation, dancing and brandishing various tantric attributes in his twelve arms. He is accompanied by four subsidiary forms of Ganesha holding bowls of jewels, and lotus blossoms. Adopted from Hinduism into the Vajrayana tradition of Buddhism, this form of Ganesha was popular in Tibet and was transmitted to Mongolia in the seventeenth century by the great teacher Zanabazar (1635–1723) along with a host of other Vajrayana deities. This work was drawn by Tuvdun at the Erden Zuo monastery, a major Buddhist center in Mongolia.
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