e Tsonghkapa with the disciples
- Inventory number:
- Ж-445
- Author:
- Unknown
- Creation Date:
- 20th century
- Place of Creation:
- Buryatia
- Provenance:
- Leningrad Museum of the History of Religion and Atheism
- Technique:
- painting
- Size:
- 73 x 34 cm
- Material:
- satin, paint
- Type of object:
- Thangka
- Subject:
- Buddhism
Je Tsongkhapa Losang Drakpa (1357–1419) is a reformer of Tibetan Buddhism and the founder of the Gelug school. He is regarded as the incarnation of the bodhisattva Manjushri. The thangka presents the image of Je Tsongkhapa known as “Yab-re” or “Father with Sons”. In monastic robes, Je Tsongkhapa sits cross-legged in the vajra posture, with his hands on his chest in the gesture of teaching. The Teacher is accompanied by two of his students. To the left is Gedundrup Geleg Pelzang (1391–1474), known as the First Dalai Lama, the founder of Tashi Lhunpo Monastery, the residence of the Panchen Lama. The term “Panchen Lama” means “great scholar”, derived from the Sanskrit word pandit, meaning “scholar”, and chen, meaning “great”. He is the second most significant hierarchy in the Gelug tradition and the abbot of this monastery.
