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Unknown
Sakyapa Monkscirca 1500

Not on view
Tibetan thangka painting with four large seated figures in saffron robes arranged in a two-by-two grid, each within an arched niche on a red ground, with small subsidiary figures throughout

Unknown, Sakyapa Monks, circa 1500, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA

Artist or Maker
Unknown
Title
Sakyapa Monks
Place Made
Central Tibet, a Sakyapa Monastery
Date Made
circa 1500
Medium
Mineral pigments and gold on cotton cloth
Dimensions
28 1/2 x 27 in. (72.4 x 68.6 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of The Ahmanson Foundation
Accession Number
M.81.26
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
South and Southeast Asian Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Pal, Pratapaditya. Art of Tibet. Los Angeles; Berkeley, CA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; University of California Press, 1983.
  • Pal, Pratapaditya. Art of Tibet. Expanded edition. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990.
  • Little, Stephen, Tushara Bindu Gude, Karina Romero Blanco, Silvia Seligson, Marco Antonio Karam. Las Huellas de Buda. Ciudad de México : Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, 2018.
  • Little, Stephen, and Tushara Bindu Gude. Realms of the Dharma: Buddhist Art across Asia. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2025.