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Dharma, Monasteries

Thangka Collection of Shechen Monastery Nepal

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is one of mainmonastery of the  tradition of . It was originally located in Kham, , but was destroyed in the late 1950s during the Cultural Revolution and was rebuilt in in 1985.

In the 1980s,   transplanted the rich tradition of the original Shechen to a new home near the great of Bodhnath in , Nepal.

Shechen is dedicated to the growth and fulfillment of the vision and projects of the Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche in the and cultural activity.

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Heruka Old Thangka

This is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet in between 1800 – 1899.

Heruka is from Nyingma, Lineage.

Name Heruka
Name ཧེ་རུ་ཀ། རྙིང་མ་པ།
Chinese Name  嘿噜嘎
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Nyingma, Kagyu, and
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Heruka Thangka from Tibet

This Heruka Thangka is the collection form Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet in between 1800 – 1899.

Heruka is presented in wrathful appearance embracing his consort. Heruka is green in color with 3 faces and 6 hands. The two main hands are folded in front holding a wheel and vase. The remaining right hands hold a and a stick with a flayed human . The left hold a and lasso. The blue two armed consort holds a and a .

Name Heruka
Tibetan Name ཧེ་རུ་ཀ། རྙིང་མ་པ།
Chinese name  嘿噜嘎
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Nyingma, Kagyu, and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Heruka Buddhist Thangka

This Heruka Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Heruka is from Nyingma, Kagyu and buddhist Lineage.

Name Heruka
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Nyingma, Kagyu, and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Heruka Tibetan Thangka

This Heruka Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Heruka is from Nyingma, Kagyu and buddhist Lineage.

Origin Tibet
Name Heruka
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Nyingma, Kagyu, and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Heruka Buddhist Thangka Art

This Heruka Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Heruka is from Nyingma, Kagyu and buddhist Lineage.

Origin Tibet
Name Heruka
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Nyingma, Kagyu, and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Heruka Tibetan Thangka Art

This Heruka Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Heruka is from Nyingma, Kagyu and buddhist Lineage.

Origin Tibet
Name Heruka
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Nyingma, Kagyu, and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Heruka Thangka

This Heruka Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Heruka is from Nyingma, Kagyu and buddhist Lineage.

Origin Tibet
Name Heruka
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Nyingma, Kagyu, and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Heruka Thangka Art

This Heruka Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Heruka is from Nyingma, Kagyu and buddhist Lineage. In the top left of the Heruka, Garwang Shigpo Lingpa and in the top right corner Chogyal Rinchen Puntsog is presented in the thangka.

Origin Tibet
Name Heruka
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Nyingma, Kagyu, and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Heruka Painting Art

This Heruka Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Heruka is from Nyingma, Kagyu, and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Heruka
Tibetan Name ཧེ་རུ་ཀ། རྙིང་མ་པ།
Chinese name  嘿噜嘎
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Nyingma, Kagyu, and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Vajrakilaya Thangka

This  Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1900 – 1959.

Vajrakilaya is from Nyingma, (Kagyu) and Buddhist lineage. Vajrakila is presented at the the top left wearing a red hat in the thangka.

Name Vajrakilaya
Tibetan Name རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ།
Chinese name 金刚普巴
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1900 – 1959
Lineage Nyingma, Kagyu, and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Mahakala Thangka

This Heruka Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Heruka is from Nyingma, Kagyu, and Buddhist Lineage. Kedrub Kyungpo Naljor is depicted at the top center in the thangka.

Name Mahakala
Tibetan Name མ་ཧཱ་ཀཱ་ལ། ནག་པོ་ཆེན་པོ།
Chinese Name  玛哈嘎拉
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Nyingma, Kagyu, and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Hayagriva Thangka

This Hayariva Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Hayagriva is from Nyingma and Buddhist lineage.

Name Hayagriva
Tibetan Name རྟ་མགྲིན། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 马头明王
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Nyingma and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance Warthful
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Jamgon Kongtrul Thangka

This  Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Jamgon Kongtrul is from Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Jamgon Kongtrul
Tibetan Name བླ་མ།
Chinese Name 喇嘛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist
Classification Person
Appearance Monastic
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Jamyang Kyentse Wangpo Thangka

This Jamyang Kyentse Wangpo  Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1900 – 1959.

Jamyang Kyentse Wangpo is from Buddhist Lineage. This is based on a Guruyoga practice depicting Khyentse Wangpo as a riding a turtle. Other famous teachers of the 19th century such as Jamgon Kongtrul, Zhalu Tankyong, and Chogyur Lingpa are positioned surrounding the central figure.

Name Jamyang Kyentse Wangpo
Tibetan Name  བླ་མ།
Chinese Name 喇嘛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1900 – 1959
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Person
Appearance Monastic
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Marpa Chokyi Lodro Thangka

This Chokyi Lodro  Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Marpa Chokyi Lodro is from Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Marpa Chokyi Lodro
Tibetan Name བླ་མ།
Chinese Name 喇嘛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist
Classification Person
Appearance Lay Person
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Milarepa Thangka

This Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Milarepa is from Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Milarepa
Tibetan Name བླ་མ།
Chinese Name 喇嘛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist
Classification Person
Appearance Lay Person
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Gampopa Thangka

This Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Gampopa is from Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Gampopa
Tibetan Name བླ་མ།
Chinese Name 喇嘛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist
Classification Person
Appearance Monastic
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Kyungpo Naljor Thangka

This Kyungpo Naljor Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Kyungpo Naljo is from Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist Lineage.

Origin Tibet
Name Kyungpo Naljor
Tibetan Name བླ་མ།
Chinese Name  喇嘛
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage and Buddhist
Classification Person
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Amitabha Buddha Thangka

This is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

is from Buddhist Lineage.

Name
Tibetan Name སངས་རྒྱས་འོད་དཔག་མེད།
Chinese Name  无量寿佛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance Buddha
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Padmasambhava Thangka

This Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Padmasambhava is from Buddhist Lineage.

Name Padmasambhava
Tibetan Name པད་མ་འབྱུང་གནས།
Chinese name 莲花生大士
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Padmasambhava Art

This Padmasambhava  is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Padmasambhava is from Buddhist Lineage.

Name Padmasambhava
Tibetan Name པད་མ་འབྱུང་གནས།
Chinese name 莲花生大士
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Vajrasattva Thangka

This Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Vajrasattva is from Nyingma and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Vajrasattva
Tibetan Name རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ།
Chinese Name  金刚萨埵
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Nyingma and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Chakrasamvara Thangka

This Chakrasamvara  Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Chakrasamvara  is from Buddhist Lineage.

Name Chakrasamvara 
Tibetan Name འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese name 勝樂金剛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Mahamaya Thangka

This Mahamaya Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Mahamaya is from Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist Lineage. Mahamaya has blue with four faces, blue, yellow, red, green. The first two hands hold a skullcup and staff while embracing the consort. The lower two [hands] hold an arrow and bow. Standing with the left leg drawn up in a half posture dancing manner.

Mahamaya is wearing a human skin upper garment. The consort, Buddha , is red, the same [in appearance], embracing, with a crown of dry skulls, head necklace, and five .

Name Mahamaya
Tibetan Name མཱ་ཧ་མཱ་ཡཱ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese name 大幻化
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Avalokiteshvara Thangka

This   Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Avalokiteshvara  is from Buddhist Lineage.

Name Avalokiteshvara
Tibetan Name སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས།
Chinese Name 观音菩萨
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance Peaceful
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Vajrayogini Thangka

This   Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Vajrayogini is from Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Vajrayogini
Tibetan Name རྡོ་རྗེ་རྣལ་འབྱོར་མ། སྣང་བརྙན་ཡོངས།
Chinese Name 金刚瑜伽佛母
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance Semi- peaceful
Gender FeMale
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Avalokiteshvara 

This Avalokiteshvara  Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Avalokiteshvara is from Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Avalokiteshvara
Tibetan Name སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས།
Chinese Name  观音菩萨
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance Peaceful
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Samaya Yogini Thangka

This Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Samaya Yogini is from Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Samaya Yogini 
Tibetan Name སྒྲོལ་མ། སྣང་བརྙན་ཡོངས།
Chinese Name 度母
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance Semi- peaceful
Gender Female
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Shakyamuni Buddha Thangka

This is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1960 -.

is from Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist Lineage. At the top center of the Buddha, there is Vajrasattva with Padmasambhava slightly lower to the left and the 11th Tai Situ, Pema Wangchug Gyalpo (1886-1952), at the lower right. At the bottom, left is Chaturbhuja Lokeshvara and on the right.

Name Shakyamuni Buddha
Tibetan Name ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ།
Chinese name 释迦牟尼佛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1960 –
Lineage Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist
Classification Person
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Chemchog Thangka

This Chemchog Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Chemchog is from Nyingma  and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Chemchog
Tibetan Name ཆེ་མཆོག། སྒྲུབ་པ་བཀའ་བརྒྱད།
Chinese name 大殊胜嘿噜嘎
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Nyingma and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Vairochana Buddha Thangka

This is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Vairochana Buddha is from Buddhist Lineage.

Name Vairochana Buddha
Tibetan Name ཀུན་རིག་རྣམ་པར་སྣང་མཛད།
Chinese Name  普明大日如来
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance Peaceful
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Shakyamuni Buddha Art

This Shakyamuni Buddha Art is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Shakyamuni Buddha is from Buddhist Lineage.

Name Shakyamuni Buddha
Tibetan Name ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ།
Chinese name 释迦牟尼佛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Person
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Deity Yamari, Rakta

This Buddhist deity , Rakta is from Shechen Monastery from Tibet. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1960 -.

Yamari, Rakta is from Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist Lineage. Yamari, Rakta is an emanation of the of . Yamari, Rakta has one face and two hands. The right hand holds aloft a vajra stick ready to strike and the left a skullcup held to the heart embracing the consort Vajra Vitali.

Name Yamari, Rakta
Tibetan Name གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་དམར། དམར་པོ།
Chinese Name  红威罗瓦金刚
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1960 –
Classification Deity
Lineage Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Deity Maitreya

This Buddhist Deity  is from Shechen Monastery from Tibet. The origin of this thangka is Tibet in between 1800 – 1899.

Maitreya is from Buddhist Lineage.

Name Maitreya
Tibetan Name རྒྱལ་བ་བྱམས་པ།
Chinese Name  弥勒佛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Lama Teacher Chokyi Jungne

This teacher Chokyi Jungne is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Chokyi Jungne is from Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist Lineage. He is monastic in appearance.

Name Chokyi Jungne
Tibetan Name བླ་མ།
Chinese Name 喇嘛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist
Classification Person
Appearance Monastic
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Lama Teacher Jamgon Kongtrul

This Lama Teacher Jamgon Kongtrul is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1900 – 1959.

Lama Teacher Jamgon Kongtrul is from Nyingma and Buddhist Lineage. The material used to make this thangka is Mineral Pigment on . He is monastic in appearance.

Name Jamgon Kongtrul 
Tibetan Name བླ་མ།
Chinese Name 喇嘛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1900 – 1959
Lineage Kagyu, Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist
Classification Person
Appearance Monastic
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Deity Kalachakra

This thangka of is from Tibet. Kalachakra is from Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist lineage. This thangka is from Shechen Monastery, Nepal collection.

Name Kalachakra
Tibetan Name དུས་འཁོར། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 时轮（佛教）
Location Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Karma (Kagyu) and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Deity Vajrabhairava

This thangka of  is from Tibet. Vajrabhairava is from a Buddhist lineage. This thangka is from Shechen Monastery, Nepal collection.

Name Vajrabhairava
Tibetan Name རྡོ་རྗེ་འཇིགས་འབྱེད།
Chinese Name 金刚大威德（佛教本尊）
Location Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Vajrakaliya Thangka

This Vajrakaliya Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Vajrakila is from Nyingma, Karma (Kagyu), and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Vajrakila
Tibetan Name རྡོ་རྗེ་ཕུར་པ།
Chinese Name  金刚普巴（本尊）
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Nyingma, Karma (Kagyu), and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Deity White Tara Thangka

This is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

is from Buddhist Lineage. She is peaceful in appearance.

Name White
Tibetan Name སྒྲོལ་མ། སྣང་བརྙན་ཡོངས།
Chinese Name  度母（本尊）（全像）
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance Peaceful
Gender Female
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Deity Chakrasamvara

This Chakrasamvara Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Chakrasamvara is from Shangpa Kagyu and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Heruka
Tibetan Name འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese Name 勝樂金剛 (全图)
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Shangpa Kagyu and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Deity Vajrasattva

This Vajrasattva Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Vajrasattva is from Shangpa Kagyu and Buddhist Lineage. Vajrasattva is peaceful in appearance.

Name Vajrasattva
Tibetan Name  རྡོ་རྗེ་སེམས་དཔའ།
Chinese Name 金刚萨埵
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance Peaceful
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Protector Mahakala

This Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Mahakala is from Buddhist Lineage. He is peaceful in appearance.

Name Mahakala
Tibetan Name མ་ཧཱ་ཀཱ་ལ། ནག་པོ་ཆེན་པོ།
Chinese Name  玛哈嘎拉
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance Peaceful
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

13th Karmapa, Dudul Dorje

This Dorje Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

 Dudul Dorje is from Kagyu and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Dudul Dorje 
Tibetan Name  བླ་མ།
Chinese Name   喇嘛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Kagyu and Buddhist
Classification Person
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Deity White Tara

This White Tara Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

White Tara is from Buddhist Lineage. She is peaceful in appearance. She is radiant like a stainless crystal jewel, shining with rays of light. She has one face, two hands, and having three eyes with the conduct of having sixteen years of age.

Her right hand is in the mudra of supreme generosity, and the left holds with the thumb and forefinger the stem of a white to the heart with the petals blossoming at the ear. Representing the buddhas of the three the single stem is divided into three, in the middle is a blossoming flower, the right in fruition, the left in the form of a bud; adorned with various jewel ornaments. She is having various upper garments and a lower garment of red silk.

She is seated with the legs in vajra posture. The palms of the hands and feet each have an eye – the seven eyes of pristine awareness.

Name White Tara
Tibetan Name སྒྲོལ་མ། སྣང་བརྙན་ཡོངས།
Chinese Name  度母（本尊）（全像）
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance Peaceful
Gender Female
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Akshobhya Buddha Thangka

This Ashokabya Buddha Thangka is a collection from Shechen Monastery in Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899. The material used to make this thangka is Ground: Image.

Ashokabya Buddha is from Buddhist Lineage. He is Buddha in appearance.

Name Ashokabya Buddha
Tibetan Name མི་འཁྲུགས་པ།
Chinese Name 不动如来
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Material Ground: Textile Image
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance Buddha
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Shakyamuni Buddha Painting

This Shakyamuni Buddha  is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Shakyamuni Buddha is from Kagyu and Buddhist Lineage. Shakyamuni Buddha is surrounded by life story vignettes from a set of five .

Name Shakyamuni Buddha
Tibetan Name ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ།
Chinese name 释迦牟尼佛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Kagyu and Buddhist
Classification Person
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Shakyamuni Buddha Buddhist Thangka

This Shakyamuni Buddha Thangka is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Shakyamuni Buddha is from Kagyu and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Shakyamuni Buddha
Tibetan Name ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ།
Chinese name 释迦牟尼佛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Kagyu and Buddhist
Classification Person
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Shakyamuni Buddha Tibetan Thangka

This Shakyamuni Buddha Art is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Shakyamuni Buddha is from Buddhist Lineage. He is Buddha in appearance.

Name Shakyamuni Buddha
Tibetan Name ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ།
Chinese name 释迦牟尼佛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Appearance Buddha
Lineage Buddhist
Classification Person
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Shakyamuni Buddha Traditional Thangka

This Shakyamuni Buddha Art is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Shakyamuni Buddha is from Kagyu and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Shakyamuni Buddha
Tibetan Name ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ།
Chinese name 释迦牟尼佛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Kagyu and Buddhist
Classification Person
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Life Story – Shakyamuni Buddha

This Shakyamuni Buddha Art is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Shakyamuni Buddha is from Kagyu and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Shakyamuni Buddha
Tibetan Name ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ།
Chinese name 释迦牟尼佛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Kagyu and Buddhist
Classification Person
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Shakyamuni Buddha Ritual Thangka

This Shakyamuni Buddha Art is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Shakyamuni Buddha is from Buddhist Lineage.

Name Shakyamuni Buddha
Tibetan Name ཤཱཀྱ་ཐུབ་པ།
Chinese name 释迦牟尼佛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Kagyu and Buddhist
Classification Person
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Padmasambhava Thangka Art

This Padmasambhava Thangka Art is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Padmasambhava is from and Buddhist Lineage.

Name Padmasambhava
Tibetan Name པད་མ་འབྱུང་གནས།
Chinese name 莲花生大士
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Sakya and Buddhist
Classification Person
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Lama Teacher

This Lama Teacher Thangka is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1960 -.

Lama Teacher is from Nyingma and Buddhist Lineage. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton.

Name Lama Teacher
Tibetan Name བླ་མ།
Chinese name 喇嘛
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1960 –
Material Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Lineage Nyingma and Buddhist
Classification Person
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddist Deity Virudhaka Thangka

This Virudhaka Thangka is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

He is from Sakya and Buddhist Lineage. He is in appearance.

Name Virudhaka
Tibetan Name རྒྱལ་ཆེན་རིགས་བཞི།
Chinese name 四大天王
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Sakya and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance King
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddist Deity Dhritarashtra Thangka

This  Thangka is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

He is from Sakya and Buddhist Lineage. He is King in appearance.

Name Dhritarashtra
Tibetan Name  རྒྱལ་ཆེན་རིགས་བཞི།
Chinese name  四大天王
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Sakya and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance King
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddist Deity Vaishravana Thangka

This Vaishravana Thangka is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

He is from Sakya and Buddhist Lineage. He is King in appearance.

Name Vaishravana
Tibetan Name རྒྱལ་ཆེན་རིགས་བཞི།
Chinese name 四大天王
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Sakya and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance King
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddist Deity Virupaksha

This Virupaksha Thangka is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

He is from Sakya and Buddhist Lineage. He is King in appearance.

Name Virudhaka
Tibetan Name རྒྱལ་ཆེན་རིགས་བཞི།
Chinese name 四大天王
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Sakya and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance King
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Protector Mahakala Thangka

This Mahakala Thangka is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1900 – 1959.

He is from Nyingma and Buddhist Lineage. He is warthful in appearance.

Name Mahakala
Tibetan Name མ་ཧཱ་ཀཱ་ལ། ནག་པོ་ཆེན་པོ།
Chinese name 玛哈嘎拉
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1900 – 1959
Lineage Nyingma and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance Wrathful
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Deity Chakrasamvara Thangka

This Chakrasamvara Thangka is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

He is from Sakya and Buddhist Lineage. He is Semi-Peaceful in appearance. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton.

Name Chakrasamvara
Tibetan Name འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese name 勝樂金剛 (全图)
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Sakya and Buddhist
Material Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Classification Deity
Appearance Semi-Peaceful
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Samputa Thangka

This Samputa Thangka is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Samputa is from Sakya and Buddhist Lineage. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton.

Name Samputa
Tibetan Name ཡང་དག་པར་སྦྱོར་བ། སྒྲུབ་པ་བཀའ་བརྒྱད།
Chinese name 三补咤
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Sakya and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Material Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Deity Vajrabhairava Thangka

This Vajrabhairava Thangka is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

He is from Sakya, (Sakya), and Buddhist Lineage. He is Animal-Feature in appearance. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton.

Name Vajrabhairava
Tibetan Name རྡོ་རྗེ་འཇིགས་འབྱེད།
Chinese name 金刚大威德（佛教本尊）
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Sakya, Ngor (Sakya), and Buddhist
Material Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Classification Deity
Appearance Animal-Feature
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Deity Chakrasamvara Art

This Chakrasamvara Art is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton.

He is from Sakya and Buddhist Lineage. He is semi-peaceful in appearance.

Name Chakrasamvara
Tibetan Name འཁོར་ལོ་བདེ་མཆོག། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese name  勝樂金剛 (全图)
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Sakya and Buddhist
Material Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Classification Deity
Appearance Semi-Peaceful
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Deity Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja

This Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja Thangka is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton.

He is from Sakya and Buddhist Lineage. He is Semi-Peaceful in appearance.

Name Akshobhyavajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese name 密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Sakya and Buddhist
Material Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Classification Deity
Appearance Semi-Peaceful
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Deity Yamari, Rakta

This Yamari, Rakta Thangka is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

He is from Sakya, Ngor (Sakya), and Buddhist Lineage. He is Wrathful in appearance. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton.

Name Yamari, Rakta
Tibetan Name གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་དམར། དམར་པོ།
Chinese name 红威罗瓦金刚
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Sakya, Ngor (Sakya), and Buddhist
Material Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Classification Deity
Appearance Wrathful
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Deity Yamari, Krishna

This Yamari, Thangka is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899. He has three faces and six hands.

Yamari, Krishna is from Sakya, Ngor (Sakya), and Buddhist Lineage. Yamari, Krishna is Wrathful in appearance. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton.

Name Yamari, Krishna
Tibetan Name གཤིན་རྗེ་གཤེད་ནག། ནག་པོ།
Chinese name 黑威罗瓦金刚
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Sakya, Ngor (Sakya), and Buddhist
Material Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Classification Deity
Appearance Wrathful
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Hevajra Buddhist Painting

This  Painting is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Hevajra is from Sakya and Buddhist Lineage. The material used to make this thangka is Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton.

Name Hevajra
Tibetan Name  ཀྱེ་རྡོ་རྗེ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese name 喜金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Material Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton
Lineage Sakya and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Buddhist Deity Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja

This  Guhyasamaja Thangka is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899. Manjuvajra has a the color of purified gold, three faces, and six hands. The main face is yellow, the right blue, and the left white.

The first two hands embrace the Mother. The lower right hands hold a sword and arrow, and the lower left an Utpala [flower] and bow. Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja is wearing jewel ornaments and having the thirty-two major and eighty minor marks; seated with the legs in the vajra posture. In the lap is the Mother Manjuvajra with three faces and six hands, with the color, hand objects, and embrace, the same as that of the Father. Both are resting in

Name Manjuvajra Guhyasamaja
Tibetan Name གསང་བ་འདུས་པ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese name 密集金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Lineage Sakya and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Appearance Peaceful
Gender Male
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

Hevajra Buddhist Thangka Art

This Heyvajra Thangka is from Shechen Monastery from Nepal. The origin of this thangka is Tibet between 1800 – 1899.

Heyvajra is from Sakya and Buddhist Lineage. The material used to make this thangka is Ground: Cotton.

Name Heyvajra
Tibetan Name ཀྱེ་རྡོ་རྗེ། ནང་ལྷ།
Chinese name 喜金刚（佛教本尊）
Origin Tibet
Date Range 1800 – 1899
Material Ground: Cotton
Lineage Sakya and Buddhist
Classification Deity
Collection Shechen Monastery, Nepal

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