Chitarman II | Muhammad Shah Making Love | ca. 1735
British Library, London
Category: the beautiful
John Dee
Claude Lorrain
Claude Lorrain | The Daughters of Helios Searching for their Brother Phaeton | 1658
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
see this very nice post by Hélène Emeriaud
Aethra and Clymene
Deccani painting
Rawat Sangram Singh I of Devgarh bathing with Ladies
Rawat Sangram Singh I of Devgarh bathing with Ladies
Rajastan | ~1710 | 50.2cm x 37.7cm
Diego Velázquez
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Diego Velázquez | 1630-1640 (c.) | British Museum
Surreal number tree
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By Lukáš Lánský If you want to help me create some nicer or more accurate version of this image, see Python code that generates it. I welcome pull requests. – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=19134117
Matisse
Henri Matisse drawing sketches for the murals of the Chapelle des Dominicains, France | Robert Capa
Srinivasa Ramanujan
Childhood home of Srinivasa Ramanujan (1887-1920) : Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu | birthplace of 21st century physics | [ see also this in Quanta on the Umbral Moonshine Conjecture ]
Vessels in a Choppy Sea
Richard Parkes Bonington | ca. 1824 | w21.3 x h14 cm
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
La Baie de l’Estaque
Paul Cézanne | La Baie de l’Estaque | ca 1878–82 | collection : F. Chédeville
Cézanne
Paul Cézanne outside his studio at Les Lauves in Provence. Photo taken in April, 1906, six months before his death.
[ image thanks to @rabihalameddine ]
Portrait of Madame Cézanne
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left : Paul Cézanne | ca 1886-1887 | 18 7/16 x 15 5/16 inches | Philadelphia Museum of Art
right : Paul Cézanne | ca 1885 | 18 1/8 x 15 inches | Collection of Bettina Berggruen (on loan to the Berggruen Museum, Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin)
Palden Yonten Thaye Lodro Chokyi Gyaltsen
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Dear Sangha Members and Friends of the Padmasambhava Buddhist Center,
I have the great privilege to share with you one of the most beautiful announcements that I can make: the longtime wishes and prayers of all the PBC members and devoted disciples of Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche have been answered.
Recently, His Eminence Terton Namkha Drimed Rinpoche discovered the reincarnation of Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche on the eighth day of this month, just two days ago. He was given the name Palden Yonten Thaye Lodro Chokyi Gyaltsen!
At Padma Samye Ling, the North American Monastery of PBC, we enjoyed a great celebration for the 10th Day of Guru Rinpoche, and all the gathered Sangha rejoiced in this announcement with tremendous joy and excitement.
Now that we have discovered the reincarnation of Ven. Khenchen Palden Sherab Rinpoche, H.E. Terton Namkha Drimed Rinpoche is requesting that everyone recite many Dusum Sangye prayers of Guru Padmasambhava. This is my wish as well. We pray for the continued success of all the Dharma activities of Khenchen Yangsi Rinpoche, that there are no obstacles and everything unfolds very smoothly, for the fulfillment of all of his wishes, and that he will benefit the Teachings and all sentient beings for aeons.
Yours in the Dharma,
Khenpo Tsewang Dongyal
Padma Samye Ling
10th Day of Guru Rinpoche
April 16, 2016
