Kalacakra

This thangka depicts Kālacakra with four faces and twenty-four arms in the centre, dGe-lugs-pa lamas and kings of Śambhala at the top, deities of the Kālacakra Maṇḍala on both sides, and Vajravega and Dharma-protecting deities at the bottom. Kālacakra is the main deity of the Kālacakra-tantra of late Tantric Buddhism and are presentative tutelary deity in Tibet. A distinctive feature of this thangka is that the thirty-four deities of the Circle of the Mind, the central section of the Kāyavākcittapariniṣpanna-Kālacakra Maṇḍala, are arranged around the central figure, and because the name of each deity has been written in red letters, all the deities can be identified.