A rare painted mandala Tibeto-Chinese, 18th century

depicting palace grounds with pavilion gates in the four directions, with lotus ponds in the four corners and four directions, the chakravartin represented in azurite blue trees, with Buddhas, monks and standard bearers, all surrounding the central mandala palace of the prajnaparamita sutra placed on an open lotus flower and surrounded by eight Buddhas, with diminutive deities within the yellow, red, green and blue quadrants, and with gates protected by guardian deities, set in a landscape with dharmapala, and presided over by Tsong Khapa (1357-1419) and his two disciples, Gyaltsab and Khedrup

Cf. an eighteenth century Tibeto-Chinese Pantheon thanka painted in this style, see Sotheby's, New York, The Jucker Collection of Himalayan Paintings, March 28, 2006, p. 178, lot 106.