Wonderful Rare Tibet 19/20th Century Old Antique Buddhist Thangka "Rahula"

Size : 75 x 148 cm, 49 x 73 cm the painting (1 inch = 2.54 cm)

Material:  Ground Mineral Pigment on Cotton

Age: 19/20th Century

This is a rare old thangka for Rahula- with nice new silk mounting

The painting is excellent - with good condition and large painting size

High Quality, High Recommended

You can hang the nice thangka easily

Nice collection for Tibet Old Thangka

Rahula (Tibetan: kyab jug): is one of the 'Three Treasure Protectors' of the Nyingma School of Tibetan Buddhism. The Tibetan protector deity is based on the Indian deity Rahula, an ancient Indian god, a demi-god, of the cosmos, related to the eclipse of the sun, moon and other planets. In the ancient tradition of Tibetan Buddhism (Nyingma) Rahula became popular as a protector of the 'revealed treasure' teachings (terma). In Buddhist depictions he is portrayed with the lower body of a coiled serpent spirit (naga) and the upper body with four arms, nine heads, adorned with a thousand eyes. In the middle of the stomach is one large wrathful face. The face in the stomach, belly, is actually the face and head of Rahula. The nine stacked heads depicted above are the nine planets that Rahula has eclipsed, or rather literally swallowed, eaten and now symbolically appear on top of his own face and insatiable mouth. At the crown of the stack of all the heads is the head of a black raven.

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