Bonpo tsakli Distemper on paper Tibet

The Bon deity standing in graceful abhanga holding a kalasha in his right hand and making an instructional gesture with his left, a vulture appearing from behind the head within the white halo.

The delicately drawn tsakali depicts one of the Bon religious teachers offering instruction in the intermediate state between death and rebirth, cf. another probably from this series, formerly in the Jucker collects ion, see Hugo E. Kreijger, Tibetan Painting: The Jucker collects ion, Boston, 2001, p. 170, cat. no. 69, and sold in these rooms, March 28, 2006, lot 49. Compare other Bon tsakli, see Per Kvaerne, The Bon Religion of Tibet, Boston, 2001, pp. 30-1, pls. 45.1-2, 48.