“Father and Mother”: Tantric Couples in the Collection of the Náprstek Museum and the History of the Collection Description

Abstract

Abstract The first part of the study is devoted to the history of scholarly description of the Tibetan and Mongolian Collection in the Naprstek Museum, namely to the work of Lumir Jisl (1921-1969). The second part focuses on the iconography of Tantric couples on small votive Buddhist paintings from Mongolia.