Tibet, 19th centuryDistemper on cloth; set against a verdant landscape, Buddha Shakyamuni wearing Tibetan monastic attire, seated in padmasana over a cushion of multi-coloured lotus petals above a square throne, flanked by a pair of attendants and surrounded by the Thirty-five Confession Buddhas, with Tsongkhapa and his two favoured students floating on clouds directly above Shakyamuni's head, Vajradhara in turn above him, Atisha and two attendants in the top right corner, and Padmasambhava in his Nyima Oser form at the top left corner edge of the composition; together with a hand-written note, partly in English and partly in Tibetan, illustrating the iconography.87cm (34 1/4in) x 55.5cm (21 3/4in)