# @rubinmuseum on Instagram

- **Type:** Image
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DShsIUuiIUD
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/38110739-rubinmuseum-instagram
- **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/postThumbnails/28c9b97691.jpg
- **Posted:** 2025-12-21T13:00:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art (@rubinmuseum) — https://gondola.cc/rubinmuseum

## Caption

The #WinterSolstice may be the darkest day of the year, but it also marks the return of light. ☀️ Starting tomorrow, our days grow a little longer and brighter.

This sculpture shows Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) in his manifestation Rays of the Sun (Nyima Oser). Legend tells that after five years of practice in a charnel ground, he cleared away fear and darkness through sheer spiritual power, like sunlight breaking through the night.

Look closely: he’s seated as a tantric practitioner on an animal hide, with a radiant sun—Nyima Oser’s signature attribute—hovering above his left shoulder.
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Nyima Oser, One of the Eight Manifestations of Padmasambhava; Tibet; 18th century; gilt copper alloy; Rubin Museum of Art; gift of the Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation; F1997.31.22 (HAR 700022)

#WinterSolstice #HimalayanArt #RubinMuseum

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