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Can anybody tell me who the central figure is in the triptych?
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Grigoris wrote: Tue Aug 07, 2018 7:16 pm Can anybody tell me who the central figure is in the triptych?

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Probably Bernhard Schweizer.
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Nam-say Drak-jed (rNam sras drag byed) surrounded [His retinue] of eight Nagas. Also called Nam-say drag-jed nag-po. Sanskrit: Raudra-kṛṣṇa-Vaiśravaṇa. One of five forms of of Vaishravana.
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pemachophel wrote: Tue Aug 07, 2018 7:57 pm Nam-say Drak-jed (rNam sras drag byed) surrounded [His retinue] of eight Nagas. Also called Nam-say drag-jed nag-po. Sanskrit: Raudra-kṛṣṇa-Vaiśravaṇa. One of five forms of of Vaishravana.
Thank you very much! :smile:
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