Dharmapala Thangka CentreSchool of Thangka Painting

This big Thangka depicts Padmasambhava in his classical form.

The translation of his name is "The Lotus Born".His tradition says that he was not born of a woman. Instead, he had miraculously come into the world on a lotus in a lake in Oddiyana.

This is clear from this scroll painting, for is depicted here surrounded by numerous lotus blossoms.