Chengde Eight Outlying Temples: Dharma Protector Riding on a Goat
Gilt bronze
Chengde Eight Outlying Temples: Dharma Protector Riding on a Goat
CHINA, Hebei, Chengde; Qing dynasty
Dam Chen Garba Nagpo, meaning Oath-Bound Dark Blacksmith, is a Dharma protector of Tibetan Buddhism. He is riding a goat with twisted horns and holding out his hands in karana (warding off evil) mudra. His right hand originally held a vajra made of meteoric iron while his left hand held a tiger-skin bellows that was to swell bigger the faster he rode. Flame-like hair billows above his angry face and is restrained by a crown in this 18th century gilded bronze image. The sleeves rise with the wind, and he wears a garland of severed heads below his surcoat. The goat’s hair hangs down in a flame pattern and its feet tread on corpses.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, page 239.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Chengde Eight Outlying Temples: Dharma Protector Riding on a Goat." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, vol. 10, 2016, pp. 239.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Chengde Eight Outlying Temples: Dharma Protector Riding on a Goat" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F, 10:239.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Chengde Eight Outlying Temples: Dharma Protector Riding on a Goat. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture A-F (Vol. 10, pp. 239).
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