# @rubinmuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DK7WgAAoXtm
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/31574679-rubinmuseum-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-06-15T16:00:27.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art (@rubinmuseum) — https://gondola.cc/rubinmuseum

## Caption

Happy #FathersDay to all the fathers and father figures in our lives!

In Buddhism, the term “father and son” is often used in defining the close spiritual relationship between teachers and students. Lama Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) had this relationship with his two close disciples, Gyaltsap Dharma Rinchen (1364-1432) and Kedrup Geleg Pal Zangpo (1385-1438), depicted in this work, referred to as “Three Figures of Father and Sons."

Lama Tsongkhapa, founder of the Geluk Tibetan Buddhist tradition, is depicted here in the appearance of a monastic scholar with a yellow pandita hat and the orange patchwork robes of a fully ordained monk. He performs with both hands the mudra of Dharma teaching, while holding the stems of two lotus flowers blossoming at both ears. The blossoms support a wisdom sword on the right and a book on the left. At the front, sit his two close disciples. Both wear monastic robes and yellow hats, each holding a book in the left hand while the right hands assume postures of explication of the teachings.

Did you know that this artwork is in the Rubin Museum Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room that is now on view brooklynmuseum? Spend Father's Day in Brooklyn and experience a Shrine Room in #NYC. 
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Tsongkhapa; U Province, Central Tibet; 19th century; pigments on cloth; Rubin Museum of Art, From the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Warren Wilds; C2007.22.2 (HAR 65799)

#FathersDay #FatherFigure #HimalayanArt #Lama #Tsongkapa #Teacher #RubinMuseum

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