Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13416.

Acquired Roland Koscherak Gallery, New York, 1970s, by repute. 

Wear scattered areas of staining, minor creasing throughout. Two millimeter white paint mark in bottom right quadrant, likely not original. One millimeter pin hole in upper left quadrant. Framed in traditional silk mount.
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Detailed in the Buddhist Pali canon, the Avadana legends chronicle the past lives of Buddhist figures and link past karmic events to future life stories. These canonized legends were summarized in the eleventh century in a treatise known as Leaves of the Heaven Tree, by the Kashmiri poet Kshemendra. 

Another thangka from this set,♛ detai🐲ling a further Avadana legend, was sold at Sotheby's New York, 24 March 2011, lot 83.