At the Rubin Museum we saw an exhibit which has the Fifty Four Paintings that show the Purification of the All Bad Rebirths Tantra. This set of paintings shows the stages of the ritual of the All-Knowing Buddha Vairochana. There are six groups of paintings within the set but the third stood out to me the most. The third step of this ritual is “Imagining Oneself As The Deity” which contain leaves 17-29. Leaf 17 shows how the man following this ritual sits on a lotus and above him is the Vairochana. The man is envisioning himself as a deity and is reciting the mantras. This painting really stuck out to me because of the beautiful colors and I thought it was interesting how one of the steps in because a deity is imagining yourself as one. Also I like how the Vairochana is above him in a circle as if the man is day- dreaming because this is how we depict someones inner thoughts in pictures today.