A brief introduction to Black Jambhala featuring Thangka and Statue collections

, Black (: dzam bha la, nag po), a wealthy deity popularized in by Bari and the Kashmiri teacher Shakyashri .

is known by in . Kuber is the . Originating in , he appeared from the river’s and passed on the ability to generate to a monarch whose realm was experiencing severe financial troubles at the . He also helps the impoverished and those who are in solitary retreat and have a good .

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Iconography of Black Jambhala

Shakyasribhadra popularized the pose by standing naked and wrathful while clutching a skullcup and a mongoose. In , he is known as the of Wealth. He treads on the back of a golden rich man in august guise. Bari Lotsawa and Kashmiri teacher Shakyashri Bhadra popularized the wealth deity Jambhala.

Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557

“The Lord Jambhala, with a body black in colour, having the appearance of a dwarf, pot-bellied, without pierced ears, brown hair flowing upwards and bared fangs, adorned with the eight great nagas. The right hand holds a blood filled skullcup and the left a mongoose expelling various jewels. The right leg is extended pressing upon the yellow Lord of Wealth, adorned with various gold ornaments, lying supine expelling various jewels from the mouth.”

Ngorchen Konchog Lhundrub, 1497-1557

He is the manifestation of , who was summoned by Buddha to turn the for the benefit of impoverished sentient beings. He will enable all undertakings to be completed flawlessly, remove all bad luck and impediments, and prevent theft, bad debts, and riches loss.

Jambhala’s is black in color. Also represented in a standing position over a human body, it represents the subduing of the human ego and the eradication of . His right hand holds the Gems Pot, while his left-hand holds a mongoose named Nehulay that spits out diamonds from its mouth. On his body, Black Jambhala also wears a snake necklace.

Iconography according to Sarma Tradition

According to sarma Tradition, Black jambhala is depicted with 1 face 2 arms with back body color. Usually, he is standing holding a skullcup and mongoose in his hands. He is presented in the state in most of the .

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Thangka collection of Black Jambhala

 The Powerful Sage [], Guhyapati [], Jetari, , Bari Lotsawa, the Great Lord Sakyapa [1092-1158], , Dragpa Gyaltsen, , Tsog , Nyenchen Sonam Tenpa, Sonam Kyab, Khedrup Zung Gyi Palwa, Palden Tsultrim, Gyaltsen [Ludingpa], Ngorchen Dorje Chang, etc.

A second lineage was brought to Tibet in approximately 1209 by the Kashmiri Pandita Shakyashri Bhadra. Black Jambhala is now practiced by all the Sarma Schools (, , Gelugpa) and gained acceptance into the School as a Terma, ‘Revealed Treasure’ tradition.

Black Jambhala Thangka

Blacj Jambhala was made in Tibet. Jambhala is from Kagyu and lineage. The material used to make this thangka is Mineral Pigment with a red background on . He is wrathful in appearance. This thangka is from a private collection.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin Tibet
Lineage Kagyu and Buddhist
Material Ground Mineral Pigment, Red Background on Cotton
Classification Deity
Appearance Warthful
Gender Male
Collection Private

Black Jambhala Thangka Art

This thangka wasmade in TibetJambhala is from Kagyu and Buddhist lineage. He is wrathful in appearance. This thangka is from a private collection.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin Tibet
Lineage Kagyu and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Private

17th century Black Jambhala Thangka

This thangka was made in TibetJambhala is from Kagyu and Buddhist lineage. This thangka was made between 1700 – 1799. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment, Black Background on Cotton. He is wrathful in appearance. This thangka is from a private collection.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1700 – 1799
Lineage Kagyu and Buddhist
Material Ground Mineral Pigment, Black Background on Cotton
Classification Deity
Appearance Wrathful
Gender Male
Collection Private

Black Jambhala Tibetan Thangka

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance Wrathful
Gender Male
Collection Private

Black Jambhala Tibetan Thangka Art

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Lineage Buddhist
Gender Male
Collection Private

Black Jambhala Buddhist Thangka

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Lineage Buddhist
Gender Male
Collection Private

Black Jambhala Buddhist Thangka Art

Black Jambhala thangka was handpainted on cotton . The origin of the is Tibet. Jambhala is from the Buddhist lineage. In this thangka, he is wrathful in appearance. This thangka is from a private collection.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Warthful
Collection Private

18th Century Black Jambhala Thangka

The origin of this thangka is Eastern Tibet. Black Jambhala is from Nyingma and Buddhist lineage. This thangka was made between 1800 – 1899. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton. He is wrathful in appearance. This thangka is from a private collection.

Black Jambhala from the Yang Ter transmission of the Revealed Treasure Tradition of the . (yang g.ter dzam nag. Volume tha of the g.ter mdzod).

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin Eastern Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Nyingma and Buddhist
Material Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Classification Deity
Appearance Warthful
Gender Male
Collection Private

Statue of Black Jambhala

Black Jambhala Statue

Jambhala is from the Buddhist lineage. He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a private collection of Hanhai Beijing.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Warthful
Collection Private (Hanhai Beijing)

Statue of Black Jambhala from Private Collection

Black Jambhala is from Buddhist lineage. He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a private collection.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Warthful
Collection Private

Black Jambhala Tibetan Statue

Jambhala is from Buddhist lineage. He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a private collection.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Warthful
Collection Private

Black Jambhala Statue – Metal, Painted Face/Hair

This statue was made in Tibet. This statue is made between 1500 -1599. Black Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. He is wrathful in appearance. This Statue is from a private collection. The material used to make the statue is Metal, Painted Face/Hair.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Material Metal, Painted Face/Hair
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Private

Black Jambhala Buddhist Statue

This Statue was made in Tibet. Jambhala is from Kagyu and Buddhist lineage. He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a private collection.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin Tibet
Lineage Kagyu and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Warthful
Collection Private

Black Jambhala Statue – Stone, Painted Face/Hair

This Statue was made in Tibet. Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. The statue is made between 1400- 1499. He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a private collection. The material used to make this statue is Stone, Painted Face/Hair.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1400 – 1499
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Material Stone, Painted Face/Hair
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Warthful
Collection Private

Black Jambhala Traditional Statue

This statue was made in Tibet between 1500 -1599. The material used to make the statue is Metal. The face and hair of jambhala is painted. He is standing in warthfull apperance with 2 hands.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Material Metal, Painted Face/Hair
Gender Male
Appearance Warthful
Collection Private

Black Jambhala Ritual Statue

This statue was made in Tibet. This statue is made between 1400 -1499. Black Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. He is wrathful in appearance. This Statue is from a private collection. The material used to make the statue is Stone.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1400 – 1499
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Material Metal, Painted Face/Hair
Gender Male
Appearance Warthful
Collection Private

Black Jambhala Statue – Metal, Painted Face/Hair

This statue was made in Tibet. This statue is made between 1400 -1499. Black Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. He is wrathful in appearance. This Statue is from a private collection. The material used to make the statue is Stone.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1400 – 1499
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Material Metal, Painted Face/Hair
Gender Male
Appearance Warthful
Collection Private

Tibetan Black Jambhala Statue

Black Jambhala is from Buddhist lineage. He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a private collection.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Warthful
Collection Private

Buddhist Black Jambhala Statue

This statue was made in Tibet. Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. The statue is made between 1300- 1399. He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a private collection. The material used to make this Metal.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1300 – 1399
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Material Metal
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Warthful
Collection Private

Traditional Black Jambhala Statue

Black Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a private collection.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Warthful
Collection Private

Ritual Black Jambhala Statue

This Statue was made in Tibet. Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a private collection. The material used to make this statue is Metal.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Lineage Buddhist
Material Metal
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Private

Black Jambhala Handmade Statue

This Statue was made in Mongolia. Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. The statue is made between 1400- 1499. He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a private collection. The material used to make this statue is Stone, Painted Face/Hair.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin Mongolia
Lineage Buddhist
Material Metal
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Private

Black Jambhala – Handmade Statue

This Statue was made in Tibet. Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a private collection. The material used to make this statue is Stone.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Material Stone
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Private

Black Jambhala – Traditional Statue

 Black Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. He is wrathful in appearance. This Statue is from a private collection.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Private

15th Century Black Jambhala Statue

This statue was made in . Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. The statue is made between 1500- 1599.

He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a private collection. The material used to make this Metal.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1500 – 1599
Origin Nepal
Lineage Buddhist
Material Metal
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Warthful
Collection Private

Tibetan Statue of Black Jambhala

Black Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. This statue is from a John & Karina Stewart collection.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Lineage Buddhist
Gender Male
Collection
John & Karina Stewart

Buddhist Statue of Black Jambhala

Black Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. This statue is from a John & Karina Stewart collection.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Lineage Buddhist
Gender Male
Collection
John & Karina Stewart

Traditional Statue of Black Jambhala

This statue was made in Tibet. Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a private collection. The material used to make this Stone, Black.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Material Stone, Black
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Warthful
Collection Private

18th Century Black Jambhala Statue

This statue was made in Mongolia. Jambhala is from a  lineage. The statue is made between 1800- 1899. He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a of Fine Arts collection. The material used to make this Metal.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Origin Mongolia
Lineage Gelug
Material Metal
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Zanabazar Museum of Fine Arts

Black Jambhala – 15th Century Statue

This statue was made in Tibet. Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. The statue is made between 1500- 1599. He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a private collection. The material used to make this Metal.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1500 – 1599
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Material Metal
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Private

17th Century Black Jambhala Statue

This statue was made in Tibet. Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. The statue is made between 1500- 1599. He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a collection. The material used to make this Statue is Bronze.

The body of Black Jambhala is black in color. He is having the appearance of a dwarf, pot-bellied, without pierced ears, brown hair flowing upwards and bared fangs, and is adorned with the eight great nagas. His right-hand holds a blood-filled skullcup and the left a mongoose expelling various jewels.

His right leg is extended pressing upon the yellow Lord of Wealth. He is adorned with various gold ornaments, lying supine expelling various jewels from the mouth.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1700 – 1799
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Material Bronze
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Rubin Museum of Art

Ritual Statue of Black Jambhala

This statue was made in Tibet. Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. The statue is made between 1500- 1599. He is wrathful in appearance.

This statue is from a Rubin Museum of Art collection. The material used to make this Bronze. The size of this statue is 51.13cm (20.13in) high.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1500 – 1599
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Material Bronze
Size 51.13cm (20.13in) high
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Rubin Museum of Art

12th Century Black Jambhala Statue

This statue was made in Tibet. Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. The statue is made between 1200- 1299. He is wrathful in appearance.

This statue is from a Rubin Museum of Art collection. The material used to make this Bronze.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1200 – 1299
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Material Bronze
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Rubin Museum of Art

Black Jambhala – Tibetan Statue

Black Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. This statue is from a John & Karina Stewart collection. The material used to make this statue is Metal.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Lineage Buddhist
Appearance Wrathful
Material Metal
Gender Male
Collection Rubin Museum of Art

Black Jambhala – 17th Century Statue

This statue was made in Tibet. Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. The statue is made between 1700- 1799.

He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a Rubin Museum of Art collection. The material used to make this Statue is Stone.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1700 – 1799
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Material Stone
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Rubin Museum of Art

13th Century Black Jambhala Statue

This statue was made in Tibet Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. The statue is made between 1300- 1399.

He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a Nyingjei Lam collection. The material used to make this Metal.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1300 – 1399
Origin Nepal
Lineage Buddhist
Material Metal
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Nyingjei Lam

Black Jambhala – 13th Century Statue

This statue was made in Tibet. Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. The statue is made between 1300- 1399.

He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a Nyingjei Lam collection. The material used to make this Metal.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1300 – 1399
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Material Metal
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Nyingjei Lam

Black Jambhala – Bronze Statue

This statue was made in Tibet. The statue is made between 1300- 1399.

He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a collection. The material used to make this Bronze.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1300 – 1399
Origin Nepal
Lineage Uncertain
Material Bronze
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Warthful
Collection Navin Kumar

10th Century Statue of Jambhala Statue

This statue was made in Tibet. Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. The statue is made between 1000 – 1099.

He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a Navin Kumar Gallery collection. The material used to make this Bronze.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1000 – 1099
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Material Bronze
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Navin Kumar

Black Jambhala Statue from Tibet House Museum

This statue was made in Tibet. Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. He is wrathful in appearance.

This statue is from a Museum, New Delhi collection.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Tibet House Museum, New Delhi

Statue of Black Jambhala from Nicholas Roerich Museum Collection

This statue was made in Tibet. black jambhala is standing in a wrathful appearance. This statue is from a Nicholas Roerich Museum collection.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Nicholas Roerich Museum

14th Century Black Jambhala Statue

This statue was made in Tibet. Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a Private collection. The material used to make this statue is Stone. This statue is made between 1400-1499.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1400 – 1499
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Material Stone
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Private

Black Jambhala Statue from India

This statue was made in  between 1000 – 1099. Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage.

He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a Private collection. The material used to make this Metal.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Origin India
Lineage Buddhist
Material Metal
Classification Deity
Gender15t Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Private

15th Century Black Jambhala Statue

This statue was made in Tibet between 1500- 1599.

He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from a Roshan Sabavala, Mumbai, India collection.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1500 – 1599
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Roshan Sabavala, Mumbai, India

15th Century Statue of Black Jambhala

Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. The statue is made between 1500 – 1599 in Tibet.

He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from an Alan Robert Naftalis collection. The material used to make this Bronze and Precious Stone.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1500 – 1599
Origin Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Material Metal
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Roshan Sabavala, Mumbai, India

11th Century Statue of Black Jambhala

Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. The statue is made between 1200- 1299 in Western Tibet

He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from an Alan Robert Naftalis collection. Metal is used to make this statue.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1100 – 1199
Origin Western Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Material Metal
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Alan Robert Naftalis

12th Century Statue of Black Jambhala

Jambhala is from a Buddhist lineage. The statue is made between 1200- 1299 in Western Tibet

He is wrathful in appearance. This statue is from an Alan Robert Naftalis collection. The material used to make this Bronze and Precious Stone.

Name Jambhala
Tibetan Name ཛམ་བྷཱ་ལྷ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 财神(佛教本尊)
Date Range 1200 – 1299
Origin Western Tibet
Lineage Buddhist
Material Bronze, Precious Stone
Classification Deity
Gender Male
Appearance Wrathful
Collection Alan Robert Naftalis

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