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Hayagriva thangka, 25" x 20" plus brocade

This is an extremely high quality painting of the meditational deity Hayagriva, a wrathful manifestation of Avalokiteshvra or Amitabha. There are 108 manifestations of Hayagriva. He has special abiities to cure diseasess.

Hayagriva may be black or red in color, with one face and two hands, peaceful or wrathful in appearance. Hayagriva is common to both the Nyingma and Sarma Schools of Tibetan Buddhism. Hayagriva is one of the principal deities in the Nyingma system of the Eight Heruka (Kagye). There is a variant form of Hayagriva where the three deities Vajrapani, Hayagriva and Garuda, are merged together as one. Hayagriva can also be represented at the top of the handle of a phurba, and may be depicted with a horse's head protruding from one side.