A Thang-ka depicting Pema Gyalpo, Tibet, 19th century, pigment with gold on cloth, Chinese brocade mount, the guru depicted seated on an elaborate throne in a hilly landscape surrounded by figures of lamas, Buddha and dharma-alas, 110 x 58cm Pema (or Padma) Gyalpo ('Lotus King') is the first of eight emanations of Guru Rinpoche, (the best known of which is the fourth, Padmasambhava). Guru Rinpoche was an early Buddhist teacher who is credited with bringing Vajrayana Buddhism to Tibet and building the first monastery, Samye, south of Lhasa Condition Report: some creasing and losses to painted surfacesome fading and staining to silk borderunexamined out of frame and sold as seen