Comparison of multi-coloured Garuda Thanka and Big Thunder sandpainting. (a) Multi-coloured Garuda Thanka, from the Kalachakra Tantra system. Tibet, nineteenth century.

(a) Courtesy of himalayanart.com under 'Fair Use' terms. https://www.himalayanart.org/items/33568.

(b) Big Thunder: traditional Navajo sandpainting from the Luther Douglas Collection (Sellars 1980, 21). Courtesy of the Blatchley Gallery of Art, College of Idaho.

by Prof. Joseph Wilson.

Comparison of Navajo Four Thunders sandpainting and Tibetan Four Kings mandala.

(a) Four Thunders: traditional Navajo sandpainting. © Drew Stair, www.PuebloDirect.com. Courtesy of Pueblo Direct Inc.

(b) Four Kings Vajrapani mandala from the Sarvadurgati Tantra. Central Tibet, fifteenth century (accession number BMA 81.10). Courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. https://www.himalayanart.org/items/86926.

by Prof. Joseph Wilson.

Comparison of Tibetan Enemy God and Navajo Big Fly.

(a) Detail of White Bird attendant of Bon Worldly Protector, Wer-ma Nyi-nya (Chang Sen). Ground mineral pigment on cotton. Naxi, China, nineteenth century. Collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin (Item No. 200001). Courtesy of the Rubin Museum of Art. www.himalayanart.org.

(b) Detail of Dontso sandpainting: Hail Chant, Black Dontso (Wheelwright 1946, 175). Courtesy of the Wheelwright Museum of the American Indian, Santa Fe, NM.

by Prof. Joseph Wilson.

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