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Subject : Phalden Lhamo
Painting: #900
Size : 21 X 16 inches
Purchased : Kathmandu
Price : $90.00


        The Glorious Goddess, is one of the most important protectors of the Geluk order and the guardian of Lhasa.

        She is dark blue and astride a yellow mule that has an eye in its rump. They are crossing a sea of menstrual blood. She carries a club and a skullcap full of blood. She has bone ornaments, a crown of skulls, and a garland of 51 freshly severed heads. Wearing a tiger skin around her waist with a snake belt, she has a human and elephant skin over her shoulders. She carries in her mouth a corpse. Her saddle blanket is the skin of her son, who was a cannibal and her reins are snakes. From her saddle hangs a skull, a bag of poisons and dice, to throw the fate of man.

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