Thangka: "Tashi Tseringma", 19th century · Mongolia · ID: 3045525
Description
mineral pigments and gold on primed cotton, silk framing, fixed with wooden sticks, holding a golden “vajra” in her right and a long-life flask in her left hand, her mount is a white snow-lioness
“Tashi Tseringma” is the oldest of the five “Sisters of Long Life” (“Lucky Sisters”).
She is also worshipped as a protector of human beings and is considered the mistress of all living beings and as the divine mother.
The object Thangka: “Tashi Tseringma”, 19th century with the object ID 3045525 was last part of the auction 91 Tribal Art Auction at March 9, 2019 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 30.
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