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尺寸：27 5/8 x 18 1/4 in., with brocade 50 1/2 x 33 5/8 in.
年代：18世纪
质地：唐卡(Pigments on cloth; silk brocade)
风格：不丹
来源：美国鲁宾艺术博物馆
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
Vajravarahi, readily identifiable by the sow’s head projecting from her own, is surrounded by seven other yoginis of different colors. The three teachers depicted at the top of the painting reveal that it comes from Bhutan. The most distinctive element for this attribution is the teacher at the left, who wears a dark blue hat with red and gold trim reserved for the Je Khenpo, the senior religious hierarch of Bhutan. On the reverse of the painting a precisely drawn stupa covers the area of the main deity’s body and represents her mind form. Inside the stupa her mantra is written in Lantsa script (a decorative form of Sanskrit), representing her speech form. This composition, with its dark landscape of symmetrically repeated forms, strongly emphasizes the figures. The fine jewelry, the naturalistic sow’s head at the side of the main figure, and the curved knife against her body nimbus, or mandorla, rim are all rendered with extraordinary detail.