Picturing Enlightenment: Thangka in the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College Checklist

 

First Installation, August 26, 2011 - January 1, 2012
Thangka depicting Bodhisattva and Shakti
Guru Urgyen Dorje Chang, First Manifestation
Tibetan, 18th-19th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings, wooden dowels
Gift of Mrs. George L. Hamilton
AC 1952.29
Thangka depicting Tsong-Kha-Pa Surrounded by Lesser Deities
Guru Padmasambhava, Fourth Manifestation
Tibetan, 18th-19th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings, wooden dowels
Gift of Mrs. George L. Hamilton
AC 1952.30
Thangka depicting Buddha and Other Deities
Guru Loden Chog-Sred, Fifth Manifestation
Tibetan, 18th-19th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings, wooden dowels
Gift of Mrs. George L. Hamilton
AC 1952.28
Thangka depiciting Central Deity Surrounded by Lesser Gods
Guru Nyima Ozer, Sixth Manifestation of Guru Padmasambhava
Tibetan, 18th-19th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings, wooden dowels
Gift of Mrs. George L. Hamilton
AC 1952.31
Lha-Mo Surrounded by Other Deities
Guru Sengye Gra-grogs, Eighth Manifestation of Guru Padmasambhava
Tibetan, 18th-19th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings, wooden dowels
Gift of Mrs. George L. Hamilton
AC 1952.32
Thangka possibly depicting Lobsang Yeshe, the fifth Panchen Lama
Third Panchen Lama: Visions at the Time of Empowerment
Tibetan, Mid 18th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings
Gift of Oriole Farb Feshbach in Memory of Nettie S. Horch
AC 2010.103
Thangka depicting an Assemblage of Divinities
Assemblage of Divinities (Tsog-Shing)
Tibetan, 18th-early 20th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings, wooden dowels
Gift of Mrs. George L. Hamilton
AC 1952.24
Thangka: The Buddha with Buddhist Teachers
The Buddha with Buddhist Teachers
Tibetan, Possibly Karmapa Kargyu Religious Order, 16th-19th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings
Bequest of Alban G. Widgery
AC 1968.12
Magic Circle or Mandala

Chakrasamvara Mandala
Tibetan, 19th-early 20th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings
Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Stanley King
AC 1946.52

 
Second Installation, January 27 - June 3, 2012
Thangka depicting Bodhisattva and other Deities

Bodhisattva Padmapani and other Deities
Tibetan, Late 18th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings, wooden dowels
Gift of Mrs. George L. Hamilton
AC 1952.27

Thangka depiciting Dhyani and Consort
Kalachakra 
Tibetan, Late 18th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings, wooden dowels
Gift of Mrs. George L. Hamilton
AC 1952.33
Thangka depicting Saints and Ascetics
Seventh Dalai Lama and His Chakrasamvara Initiation
Tibetan, Late 18th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings, wooden dowels
Gift of Mrs. George L. Hamilton
AC 1952.26
Thangka: The Buddha Calling the Earth to Witness, Surrounded by an illustration of a Jakata
The Buddha Calling the Earth to Witness, Surrounded by Illustrations of Jataka Stories
Tibetan, 18th-19th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings
Bequest of Alban G. Widgery
AC 1968.9
Thangka, Unknown
Unidentified Bodhisattva
Tibetan or Yunnan, 19th-early 20th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings
Gift of William P. Simons
AC 1960.52
Thangka depicting an Assemblage of Divinities

Assemblage of Divinities (Tsog-Shing)
Tibetan, 18th-early 20th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings, wooden dowels
Gift of Mrs. George L. Hamilton
AC 1952.25

Thangka depicting Kubera, the Divinity of Wealth
Kubera, the Divinity of Wealth with Eight Horsemen
Tibetan, 18th-19th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings
Bequest of Alban G. Widgery
AC 1968.11
Thangka:Tantric Figures Surrounded by Human and Animal Forms
Bardo Deities
Tibetan, 18th-early 20th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings
Bequest of Alban G. Widgery
AC 1968.10
Thangka depicting the Tara Buddha with the spirits of the north, south, east and west; with two Buddhist teachers and three othe

The Tathagata Buddha Akshobhya with the Spirits of the North, South, East and West
Tibetan, 18th-19th century
Thangka: Colors on cloth, cloth mountings
Bequest of Alban G. Widgery
AC 1968.8