RARE THANGKA OF PEHAR GYALPO.

Origin: Mongolia.
Date: 18th-19th c.
Technique: Pigments and metal on fabric.
Description: In the center the six-armed Pehar Gyalpo with three faces on a white snow lion with green mane. He is surrounded by four other gyalpo spirits each on their mount and buffeted by flames. Above him the red Hayagriva.

Pehar was an original deity of the non-Buddhist Bhata Hor Meditation school of Mongolia and was subdued in the 9th c. by Padmasambhava. In the 17th c. he was chosen as divine guardian of the Nechung temple; in which the official state oracle of Tibet is conducted.
Measurement: 32 x 24cm; with mounting 59 x 37cm.
Frame/Pedestal: Mounted as hanging scroll with Chinese silk.
Condition B.

Provenance:
-Rhenish private collection; acquired locally in the 1980s.