Home›Sources›Consecration Drawing Depicting Naropa, accession IM.121BB-1910 (Victoria and Albert Museum)SourcesConsecration Drawing Depicting Naropa, accession IM.121BB-1910 (Victoria and Albert Museum)Victoria and Albert Museum collections API record, read 2026-08-18Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Consecration Drawing Depicting Naropa, accession IM.121BB-1910 (Victoria and Albert Museum)." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/vam-naropa-o391704.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Consecration Drawing Depicting Naropa, accession IM.121BB-1910 (Victoria and Albert Museum). Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/vam-naropa-o391704Copy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-consecration-drawing-depicting-naropa-ac, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Consecration Drawing Depicting Naropa, accession IM.121BB-1910 (Victoria and Albert Museum)}, year = {2026}, url = {https://dev-divinity.interactiveatlas.org/sources/vam-naropa-o391704}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXThe Victoria and Albert Museum's own collections API record for a consecration drawing, ink and watercolour on paper, Tibet, ca. 13th century, part of a set of consecration drawings discovered inside a figure of Buddha Sakyamuni (IM.121-1910), acquired from the Baillie Gallery in 1910. The record's own physicalDescription and subjectDepicted fields name Naropa directly, accession number IM.121BB-1910.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsClaims Backed By This Source (11 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested1The holding museum's own collections API record for the accessioned object, the strongest available record for its date, findspot and accession number, its own physicalDescription and subjectDepicted fields naming Naropa directly as the drawing's subject.CitationPublisherWell-attestedVictoria and Albert MuseumURLWell-attestedhttps://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O391704Source TypeWell-attestedMuseumCross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithNaropa, Figures Well-attested This source names Naropa directly: "and subjectDepicted fields name Naropa directly, accession number IM.121BB-1910."Source Consecration Drawing Depicting Naropa, accession IM.121BB-1910 (Victoria and Albert Museum)tier 1Claims Backed By This Source (11 claims)This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicSources, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 holds.Sacred Art & Iconography, 5 claims: 2 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.Well-attested7Sacred Art & IconographyConsecration Drawing Depicting Naropa (Victoria and Albert Museum, IM.121BB-1910)SourcesConsecration Drawing Depicting Naropa, accession IM.121BB-1910 (Victoria and Albert Museum)Holds3Sacred Art & IconographyConsecration Drawing Depicting Naropa (Victoria and Albert Museum, IM.121BB-1910)SourcesConsecration Drawing Depicting Naropa, accession IM.121BB-1910 (Victoria and Albert Museum)General References1Sacred Art & IconographyConsecration Drawing Depicting Naropa (Victoria and Albert Museum, IM.121BB-1910)Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.View At A Past YearThe atlas records no dated fact of its own for this entry, so there is no other year to choose.Show This Year