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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Pema Gyalpo thangka
From: john.nebel at csdco.com (John Nebel)
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2010 18:15:02 -0600
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Richard,

Thanks for looking!

You are correct, Pema Gyalpo, is sitting on a tiger skin.  Not a god, he is 
a 
person, Padmasambhava, who in this thangka is manifesting as Pema Gylapo.

In http://thangkas.csd.net/dorjetrollo.html Padmasambhava is manifesting as 
Dorje Trollo and riding a tiger.

Impermanance: once-living human, now corpse is being eaten by a jackal and 
white 
eagle; Tibetans would be familiar with the sight.  Sky burial:

http://mbvtravel.com/burials-in-tibet-not-for-sensitive-souls
http://boon-tibet05.blogspot.com/2007/11/langmusi-gansu.html

As Pema Gyalpo, Padmasambhava was banished from the palace for killing a 
minister's wife and daughter, maybe a accident, but he was more precise than 
that.  Having no place to live, he went to live in the most unlivable place, 
a 
charnel ground.

I think that the furry beast is a yak.

Best,

John

On 10/13/2010 1:35 AM, Richard Man wrote:
> Is the person/god on the right sitting on a tiger skin? And what's story of
> the dismembered person on the bottom? A demon? And what kind of beast is
> overlooking her?
>
> On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 7:09 PM, John Nebel<john.nebel at csdco.com>  
> wrote:
>
>> http://thangkas.csd.net/pemagyalpo.html
>>
>> clickable for detail
>>
>> C&C welcome
>>
>> John
>>
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