Tibetan Woodblock Prints

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• Garuda
• Dragon
• Lion
• Tiger

Dimensions : 40.9 x 57.6 cm.

Provenance : Nepal, 1979.

Cf. Tibetan Tantric Charms & Amulets No.53.

Dimensions : 12.7 x 13.8 cm.

Provenance : Lhasa, 1986.

Cf. Tibetan Tantric Charms & Amulets Nos.47-50 and 52.

Dimensions : 15.2 x 22.2 cm.

Provenance : Nepal, 1979.

Cf. Tibetan Tantric Charms & Amulets Nos.47-50 and 52.

Dimensions : 18.6 x 15.3 cm.

Provenance : Lhasa, 1986.

Transcription

༄།ཏདྱཐཱ།ཨོཾགཏེགཏེཔཱརགཏེཔཱརསཾགཏེབོདྷིསྭཱཧཱ།
ཨོཾམུནིམུནིམཧཱམུནིཡེསྭཱཧཱ།ཨོཾཨཱམིདྷེཝཱཧྲཱི།ཨོཾམཎིཔདྨེཧཱུཾ།ཨོཾཨཱཿཧཱུཾ་
བཛྲགུརུཔདྨསིདྡྷིཧཱུཾ།ཨོཾཨཱམརཱཎིཛྲིཝནཏིཡེསྭཱཧཱ།ཨོཾཝགིཤཱརིམུཾ།ཨོཾ་
མཎིཔདྨེཧཱུཾ།ཨོཾབཛྲཔཱནིཧཱུཾ།ཨོཾཏཱརེཏུཏྟཱརེཏུརེསྭཱཧཱ།ཨོཾབྷྲཱུཾ་
སྭཱཧཱ།ཨོཾཨཱམྲིཏཱཨཱཡུརྡདེསྭཱཧཱ།ཨོཾམརིཙྱེམཾསྭཱཧཱ།
ཨོཾབཛྲསཏྭཧཱུཾ།ཨོཾབཛྲསཏྭསམཡ།མ་
ནུཔཱལཡ།བཛྲསཏྭཏཱེནོཔཏིཥྛ།དྲིཌྷོམེབྷཝ།
སུཏོཥྱོམེབྷཝ།སུཔོཥྱོམེཝ།ཨནུརཀྟོམེབྷཝ།སརྦསིདྡྷིམྨེཔྲཡཙྪ།
སརྦཀརྨསུཙམེཙིཏྟཾ།ཤྲིཡཾ།ཀུརུཧཱུཾ།ཧཧཧཧཧོ།བྷགཝཱནསརྦཏཐཱ
གཏབཛྲམཱམེམུཉྩ།བཛྲིབྷཝ།མཧཱསམཡསཏྭཨཱཿཧཱུཾ།ཨོཾབཛྲསཏྭཧཱུཾ
གངས་ཅན་མགོ་ན་པོ་སྐུཚེ་སྟག་བརྟན་ཤོག་ཀིི་སཽ་ལྷ་རྒྱ་ལོ།

At the four corners are the names of the four guardian animals :

• སྟག (tiger)
• སེང་ (lion)
• ཁྱུང༌། (garuda)
• འབྲུག (dragon)

Running down the left side are the names of the twelve animals of the zodiac :

• བྱི་བ (mouse)
• གླང་ (ox)
• སྟག (tiger)
• ཡོས (rabbit)
• འབྲུག (dragon)
• སྦྲུལ (snake)
• རྟ (horse)
• ལུག (sheep)
• སྤྲེལ (monkey)
• བྱ (bird)
• ཁྱི (dog)
• ཕག (pig)

Dimensions : 18.3 x 18.7 cm.

Provenance : Lhasa, 1986.

Dimensions : 31.5 x 50.3 cm.

Provenance : Lhasa, 1986.

Cf. Tibetan Tantric Charms & Amulets Nos.166-167.

Dimensions : 31.5 x 51.5 cm.

Provenance : Lhasa, 1986.

Dimensions : 34.5 x 32.4 cm.

Provenance : Nepal, 1979.

Cf. Tibetan Tantric Charms & Amulets No.57.

Dimensions : 36.4 x 35.8 cm.

Provenance : Nepal, 1979.

Cf. Tibetan Tantric Charms & Amulets No.232.

Dimensions : 36.0 x 37.2 cm.

Provenance : Nepal, 1979.

Cf. Tibetan Tantric Charms & Amulets No.231.

Dimensions : 39.0 x 62.2 cm.

Provenance : Nepal, 1979.

Double-Sided Strips

Dimensions : 21.5 x 3.9 cm.

Provenance : Lhasa, 1986.

Dimensions : 22.2 x 3.8 cm.

Provenance : Lhasa, 1986.

Dimensions : 18.3 x 3.7 cm.

Provenance : Lhasa, 1986.

Dimensions : 20.4 x 4.4 cm.

Provenance : Lhasa, 1986.

Dimensions : 18.6 x 2.5 cm.

Provenance : Lhasa, 1986.

Transcripion

བྱི་བ གླང་ སྟག ཡོས འབྲུག འབྲུལ རྟ ལུག སྤྲེལ བྱ ཁྱི ཕག

Note the unusual spelling of the word for "snake" ('brul for sbrul).

Dimensions : 17.2 x 2.1 cm.

Provenance : Lhasa, 1986.

Transcripion

བྱི་བ གླང་ སྟག ཡོས འབྲུག འབྲུལ རྟ ལུག སྤྲེལ བྱ ཁྱི ཕག

Note the unusual spelling of the word for "snake" (sprul for sbrul).

Small Picture Prints

Dimensions : 7.4 x 7.4 cm.

Provenance : Lhasa, 1986.

Dimensions : 5.3 x 5.4 cm.

Provenance : Lhasa, 1986.

Dimensions : 4.6 x 4.9 cm.

Provenance : Lhasa, 1986.

Notes

1. Dimensions given are for the print area. In the case of rectangular prints these are the length of the top side and the length of the left side. For round and irregular-shaped prints these are the lengths horizontally and vertically through the centre.

Bibliography

Tibetan Tantric Charms & Amulets (230 Examples Reproduced from Original Woodblocks). Selection and text by Nik Douglas. New York : Dover Publications, 1978.

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