Guru wearing patchwork robe with staff at right shoulder, bowl in right hand, and vajra in left

Guru Rinpoche/ Padmasambhava

Location
Taktsang, upper Lhakhang, Upper Paro Valley, western Bhutan

Date
ca. 1692–93 (destroyed in 1998 fire)

Material
pigment on canvas

Collection
Brian & Felicity Shaw Photo Archive, Centre for Bhutan Studies, Thimphu (bcs 1980 0404 [323])

Photo Credit
photograph by Brian Shaw, 1980

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