མགོན་དཀར་ཡིད་བཞིན་ནོར་བུ།

Tibetan: mGon dkar yid bzhin nor bu

WHITE MAHĀKĀLA 

-  'The white Protector deity - The Jewel Who Fulfills All Desires'

Tibet 16th century

Stone –possibly marble – with additions of gold detailing and pigments

H. 10.8 cm

Provenance:  

The Nyingjei Lam Collection

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 1996–2005 

Rubin Museum of Art, New York 2005-2018

Exhibition: 

Rubin Museum “Casting the Divine: Sculptures of the Nyingjei Lam Collection” (03/03/12-02/11/13) # 074

L.2005.9.74 (HAR 68325)

白大黑天 

西藏十六世紀

石-可能是大理石-加上金飾和顏料

高 9.3厘米

來源: 

菩薩道收藏 

1996-2005年間租借給英國牛津大學阿什莫林博物館博物館 

2005-2018年間租借給美國紐約魯賓博物館

展覽：魯賓博物館“鑄神：菩薩道雕塑收藏”（03/03/12-02/11/13）#074

Although belonging to the family of most powerful protector deities known as Mahākāla (‘The Great Black One’), White Mahākāla has a slightly different purpose to those other forms. White Mahākāla is primarily a protector who is also a wealth-bestowing deity. This function of bringing wealth is exemplified by the radiant jewel, the Cintāmaṇi or ‘Wish-Fulfilling Jewel’ he holds in his lower right hand in front of his chest.

According to the Tibetan Iconographic text Bod brgyud nang bstan lha tshogs chen mo (People’s Publishing House, Sining 2001, p. 962) his yellow hair is wafted upwards and he dances in a wild performance in which his garlands swirl around him. His lower garment is a tiger skin and his upper garment is an elephant skin. He is decorated with the 5 ornaments made from dried skulls and is garlanded by a necklace of fifty moist bone pieces. His colour is said to be of the radiant whiteness of a snowy