A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c15.s3.t1.18

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The picture of the ‘terrible’ Lama is more curious than beautiful. He is seated on a tiger-skin, and seems to have evoked by his incantations the fearsome demon, perhaps Yama, or Death, with a chaplet of skulls, who appears on the right. The magician apparently is terrified by the success of his spells (Plate LXIV). All these Tibetan pictures represent fingers and toes with odd exaggeration. The flower-like cloud forms are the same as those already noticed in the wall-paintings of the Bikanīr palace (*ante*, p. 304).