A thangka of a Tsongkhapa Refuge Field19th centuryDistemper on cloth, with the Gelug patriarch seated in padmasana at the top of a tree rising from a pond at the base of the image, typically depicted with a Book of Wisdom and a sword, the left hand cradling a begging bowl in dhyanamudra, the Gelug lineage represented with an arrangement of lamas to the left and right and a field of lamas and deities below, above a collection of lamas topped with Manjusri and a blue Vajradhara flanked with Mahasiddhas, mounted on silk brocade and with a covering. 52cm (20 1/2in) x 78cm (30 3/4in)