3rd storey: chapel 3Wb

This chapel is the last one on the W-side, placed as it is at its N-end.
Chapel devoted to Byang chub sems dpa’ rdo rje (Vajrasattva). S-wall (groundplan No. 1): Statue of Byang chub sems dpa’ rdo rje (Vajrasattva) , according to the Līlāvajra´s system, flanked by two Vajrabodhisattvas, whom Tucci identifies as rDo rje sgra (Vajrabhāṣa) and rDo rje chos (Vajradharma). E-wall (groundplan No. 4): painted with the maṇḍala of the synthesis of the Five Families (Rigs bsdus pa’i dkyil ’khor) with the main figure of Mahāvairocana. W-wall (groundplan No. 2): Painted with the maṇḍala of Vairocana according to the Śrīvajramaṇḍalālaṃkāranāmamahātantrarāja (dPal rdo rje sñing po rgyan ces bya ba’i rgyud kyi rgyal po chen po). The narrow N-wall (groundplan No. 3) is painted with the Seven Jewels and the Eight Auspicious Symbols of the Universal Monarch (cakravartin).
[Lo Bue and Ricca 1990, p. 237-247/Lo Bue and Ricca 1993, p. 274].

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