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| Keywords: Yama tibet.jpg Yama mid-17th early 18th century Tibet 閻魔 17世 中葉至18世 西藏 The Metropolitan Museum of Arthttp //www metmuseum org/toah/works-of-art/69 71 One of two in the Museum's collection each over six feet tall this powerful painting was once part of a set representing the ferocious protectors of Buddhism The clarity of the composition the strong crisp lines depicting Yama's voluminous physique and the luxuriant flames encircling him and the hint of recession in the background suggest a date in the mid-seventeenth to early eighteenth century Yama is the Indian god of death who was tamed by the Bodhisattva Manjushri In later Buddhist traditions he became a protector of the religion and its adherents He carries a thunderbolt chopper and skull and wears a tiger skin jewelry and a garland of severed human skulls Trampling an agonized being Yama stands on a black lotus petal floating in a triangular sea of blood This ogre-faced form of the god sometimes known as Yama Antarasiddhi guards against the inner demons of emotional addictions such as lust and hate unknown artist PD-art Yama Tibetan Buddhist paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art | ||||
