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A SILK PAINTING OF SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA
TIBET, 18TH CENTURY

Shakyamuni Buddha seated in dhyanasana on a double lotus base,
with a serene expression backed by a nimbus and throneback with
various animals, fanked by disciples Shariputra on his right and
Maudgalyayana on his left, with ten teachers of the Sakya Lamdre
lineage seated above the throne
Opaque pigments and gold on silk
22 x 16Ω in. (56 x 42 cm.)

$6,000-8,000

PROVENANCE:

The Shelley and Donald Rubin Collection, acquired in New York,
7 September 1995
Rubin Museum of Art, gifted from the above in 2006

PUBLISHED:

Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org), item no. 175

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A PAINTING OF HAYAGRIVA AND MARICHI
TIBET, 19TH CENTURY

The couple in embrace over prone fgures on a lotus
base, he with red skin, three faces surmounted by horse
heads, his principle hands holding a white lotus fower
and skullcup with various implements in the rest, adorned
with snakes, multiple gold and jewled ornaments, a skull
crown and tiger-skin skirt, she with blue skin and holding
a skullcup, wearing a leopard-skin skirt and beaded
ornaments, backed by the fames of pristine awareness, with
red Amitayus at top left and Vaishravana at top right
Opaque pigments and gold on textile
21 x 18º in. (53.3 x 46.4 cm.)

$8,000-12,000

PROVENANCE:

The Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, acquired in
New York, 29 August 1996
Rubin Museum of Art, gifted from the above in 2004

PUBLISHED:

Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org), item no. 431

Hayagriva belongs to the set known as the Eight Sadhana
Sections of the Mahayoga Inner Tantras. This text was
discovered by Arya Nagarjuna in a copper casket in a stupa from
the Sitavana charnel ground, near present-day Bodhgaya.

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