Peaceful White Ḍākinī thangka

Object location: Bedroom (currently relocated to the exhibition room)

In later years, after Sangharakshita had returned to live in the West, various members of the Triratna Buddhist Order would call on his teacher, Chatral (Chattrul) Rinpoche (1913–2015) to pay their respects, and to offer wishes or gifts from Urgyen Sangharakshita. Usually Rinpoche would send a white offering scarf back. On one occasion, he sent some medicine pills that he had blessed, together with this thangka of a peaceful white ḍākinī, a figure that holds central place in one of the cycles of teaching of another of Sangharakshita’s teachers, Dudjom Rinpoche (1904–1987).