Maitreya (Buddhist deity)

Depiction of the Maitreya Buddha, bodhisattva, from the Thangde Gatsal Collection on Thangka Buddhist Art. This is a large view of the Maitreya Buddha, featuring gold imagery with a dark red background. At the bottom right corner is an image of a man kneeling.

This collection contains roughly 6,000 digitized paintings and drawings as well as photographs depicting the artists. Because of the size of many of the paintings, close-up views are sometimes provided. It also contains a digital book describing the historical and religious significance of the artwork and providing context for the paintings in the collection: Spiritual Buddhist Art / Master Locho & Sarika Singh. Dharamsala, India, c2013.

Depiction of the Maitreya Buddha, bodhisattva, from the Thangde Gatsal Collection on Thangka Buddhist Art. This is a large view, with inverted colors, of the Maitreya Buddha, squatting, with the image of a man kneeling in the lower right corner. The background of the image is black with a gold border while the imagery is largely in gold.