1919,0101,0.66

Description

Scope and content : Ch. lv. 0024. Large painting on close-woven linen, in purely Tibetan style, representing Avalokiteśvara seated, with small Bodhisattvas and Eight Sacred Emblems. No border; practically complete, but painting almost effaced. Colours applied over coat of white as in other Tibetan painting Ch. lii. 001; but here evidently light in tone, only traces of rosy red, yellow, and dull green preserved. Emblems and Bodhisattvas round edge have been redrawn over similar small seated Bodhisattvas, and small figs. attendant on Avalok. in centre have been painted over with foliage and long-tailed flying birds now almost destroyed.