GAUTAMA BUDDHA WITH HIS DISCIPLES SHARIPUTRA AND MOGHALLAN, Tibet, 17th/18th ct. Tempera on cotton, brocade mounting. Designed as a veneration Thangka for a large monastery room, showing the historic Buddha accompanied by his favourite disciples Shariputra and Moghallana, seated on a lotus altar, numerous Tathagatas in their iconographic colours are depicted around him, reminiscent of Buddhist cave temples in China, where similar Buddha niches are carved into stone - Property from an important German private collection of Tibetan art, assembled prior 1980 - Minor damage due to age, wear