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Amy Heller, Tibetan Art: Tracing the Development of Spritual Ideals and Art in Tibet, Milan, 1999, cat. no. 115

Four historic Bonpo masters are depicted above the fearsome figure of Tagla Membar, including Sherab Gyaltsen (1356-1415) and Namkha Gyaltsen holding books, and Chura Namgyel who is regarded as the master of the terma texts describing the ritual cycle of the deity, see Amy Heller, Tibetan Art: Tracing the Development of Spiritual Ideals and Art in Tibet, Milan, 1999, p. 199.

The armoured god Machen Pomra riding the snow lion below is the protector deity of the Amye Machen Mountain in Amdo, ibid., and it may be that the painting was made in this eastern region of Tibet. Pigment analysis revealed the use of Prussian blue, first synthesised in 1704, and while Heller notes similarities with mid-seventeenth century murals at Tashilhunpo the presence of the pigment confirms a later date while suggesting a firm chronology within the eighteenth century, ibid. It is certainly one of the finest Bonpo paintings of the period.