Material: Cloth. Printing. Scroll. (Medicine Buddha)

Size: Approximately 122 x 83 cm

Description:

The main figure in this thangka is one of the incarnations of **Medicine Buddha (Bhaisajyaguru)**, which can also be called **Blue Medicine Buddha** or **Medicine Buddha Lapis Lazuli Light Buddha**, but this one is not a typical sitting Medicine Buddha, but a special Medicine Buddha in the form of **standing Bodhisattva**.

Identification based on the following features:

1. **Body color is blue (dark blue): This is one of the most iconic features of Medicine Buddha, symbolizing Lapis Lazuli Light, indicating the power to purify physical and mental illness.

2. **Right hand in the mudra of granting wishes (hanging down): It shows the compassionate intention of granting wishes and healing to all beings.

3. **Holding a medicine bottle or medicine bowl in the left hand** (this may be shown as holding a lotus stem in the painting): It symbolizes that Medicine Buddha can heal all sentient beings’ illnesses and karma.

4. **He wears a five-Buddha crown and a bodhisattva outfit**: This indicates that he is the **bodhisattva incarnation** of the Buddha (not the silent sitting Buddha).

5. **Sitting Buddha in the sky in the background**: A red-robed Buddha statue is sitting in the clouds on the upper right, which may be **Shakyamuni Buddha** or **the self-nature of the original Medicine Buddha**, symbolizing the inheritance and witness of the Buddha system.

Additional explanation:

In Tibetan Buddhism, the standing image of Medicine Buddha is rare, but in some traditions (such as some mandalas of the Nyingma or Sakya schools), it is sometimes presented in the form of a bodhisattva (wearing a crown, standing) to highlight its function of "appearing in the body" to benefit sentient beings.