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A THANGKA OF PADMASAMBHAVA CHIME GON
EASTERN TIBET, KHAM PROVINCE, CIRCA 19TH CENTURY
Distemper and gold on cloth; with original silk brocade mounts and silk curtain.
Inscribed on the verso with the ‘ye dharma hetu...’ Buddhist creed, Supratishtha
mantra and the following:

སྐུ་གསུམ་འདུས་པའི་བདག་ཉིད་འཆི་མེད་མགོན།
ཚེ་བདག་ཡབ་ཡུམ་སྤྲུལ་འཁོར་གཏེར་སྐྱོང་གི།
ཚོན་བརྒྱས་མཛེས་པ་ལེགས་བཞེངས་མཐུས།
མི་ཤིགས་སྲོག་གི་ཀ་བ་རྟག་བརྟན་ཤོག།
ཅེས་པའང་གསང་བ་རྩལ་གྱིས་སོ།

Translated:
“Embodiment of the three kayas, lord of immortal,
Father and mother of lord of death along with their retinues,
creating such a colorful and beautiful worship object,
May the pillar of life remain indestructible forever.
Also by Sangwa Tsal.”

Inscribed on the recto identifying the figures in the upper register:
ཆོས་རྒྱལ་བཀྲ་ཤིས་སྟོབས་རྒྱལ། (Chos rgyal bkra shis stobs rgyal)
མི་སྤྲུལ་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། (mi sprul Rin po che)
གཡུ་ཐོག་པ། (gYu Thog pa)
དྲིན་ཅན་གསང་སྔགས་ཆོས་རྒྱལ། (drin can gsang sngags chos rgyal)
དྲི་ལྷས་རྗེ་དྲུང་རིན་པོ་ཆེ། (dri lhas rje drung rin po che)

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 1851
Image: 16 1/2 x 12 1/2 in. (41.9 x 31.8 cm);
With Silks: 38 1/4x 22 1/4 in. (97.2 x 56.5 cm)

$15,000 - 20,000

藏東 康區 約十九世紀 蓮花生大士長壽尊唐卡

This painting depicts Padmasambhava as a long-life deity. Both he and his female
consort hold in their hands a water vase (kailasha) depicting a miniature portrait of
Padmasambhava and containing the elixir of immortality (amrita). Again, Jangdak
Tashi Tobgyel (1550-1603) makes an appearance along the painting’s upper
registers twice as the figures in white robes. The inscription for the third person
at the upper right also refers to Lelung Zhepai Dorje (1697-1740), the student of
Terdag Lingpa Gyurme Dorje (1646-1714) who in turn, was a student of the Fifth
Dalai Lama. The spiritual context of these masters implies a mixed Gelug-Nyingma
practice of this special form of Padmasambhava. Other striking elements in this
composition include one of Padmasambhava’s eight manifestations as Dorje
Drolo and an isometric view of a monastery, with monks congregating around an
unnamed Nyingma teacher in white robes.

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