Lord Ganesha

A 'thangka' painted to depict a Buddhist mandala representing Lord ‘Ganesha’ as the central figurehaving twelve arms holding different weapons in a dancing pose with his left foot on the rat, his vehicle or vahana. The ‘prabhavali’ around him is in red colour representing flower creepers withblue flowers. At the top of the central figure seven Bodhisattvas are shown seated in clouds. All of them are shown with blue halos around their heads. On either side of the group of Bodhisattvas andon top of Ganesha a four-armed Kali with flames around her is shown trampling on a human body; on the either side of Ganesha two Bodhisattvas are depicted, one on the right is shown seated on lion the other on the left is shown seated on a lotus. Below the figure of Ganesha on either side two Bodhisattvas are depicted seated on lotuses. The one on the right is holding a Kalasha in left hand; the one on the left is shown seated in front of a building. Between the two figures of Bodhisattvas a fruit tree is depicted with three are Buddhist dignitaries standing on lotuses,