Antique Tibetan Life Story of Buddha Shakyamuni Consecrated Thangka Scroll Painting 釋迦牟尼佛

Antique Tibetan Mineral Pigment ThangkaShakyamuni Buddha 釋迦牟尼佛Scenes of His Life StoryLineage: Buddhist, Circa: 1900 - 1930s’Silk Brocade: H 50 in. (127cm), W 33 in. (84cm)Painting: H 30 in. (76cm), W 20 in. (50cm)Condition: lightly worn, overall very good! A twice consecrated late 19th to early 20th-century hand painted Tibetan thangka with very good preservation. Elaborated with eclectic scenes of the Buddha's life, Shakyamuni is dressed in a formal orange monk robe, skin golden in color, with eyes downcast in a meditative gaze, dark blue hair curled in small tufts, formed into a large ushnisha on the crown, an urna between the long tapered eyebrows on his fine-featured face, the youthful Buddha sits cross-legged in Padmasana, with right hand placed across the knee, fingers pointed downward in the Earth Witness Mudra (Bhumisparsha), and in his left hand a large vessel filled with myrobalan nectar. This sublime image of the Buddha emerges from the center into a dazzling timeless pl