A Black-ground painting of the Inner form of Yama Dharmaraja
Tibet, 19th century
Finely painted with the wrathful god striding atop a prone figure over a lotus base, holding a curved knife and skullcup in his two hands, clad in a tiger skin and billowing sashes and adorned with a garland of freshly severed heads, the face with bared fangs and bulging eyes surmounted by a skull tiara, backed by flaming hair and surrounded by an aureole of flames, a Tibetan teacher wearing monastic robes and a red hat seated at top center flanked by Heruka Vajrabhairava with a buffalo head on the left and Arapachana Manjushri on the right, with four retinue deities riding buffalos below, set amidst a mountainous landscape
30 7/8 x 19 1/8 in. (78.6 x 48.6 cm.)
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