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A TIBETAN-INSCRIBED GILT-BRONZE The Tibetan inscription reads: ‘I bow down to Bhaisajyaguru,
FIGURE OF BHAISAJYAGURU the one who cures the three poisons’, with the three
poisons being desire-attachment, hatred-anger and closed
QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY
mindedness-delusion.
the Medicine Buddha seated in vajraparyankasana on a double-
lotus throne with beaded edges, the right hand extended
in varadamudra and holding a lotus stalk, the left hand in
dhyanamudra and supporting a lotus bloom in his alms bowl,
clad in robes fastened high around the waist and secured with
a belt, with outer robes loosely draped over the left shoulder
and cascading in voluminous folds around the feet, the hems
finely incised with floral motifs, further portrayed with a serene
countenance framed by a pair of pierced long pendulous
earlobes, all below an ushnisha atop hair neatly arranged in
rows of small whorls, the upper surface of the base incised with
a Tibetan inscription, the sealed baseplate with a vishvavajra
30 cm, 11¾ in.

HK$ 300,000-400,000
US$ 38,300-51,000 Inscription
清十八世紀 鎏金銅刻藏文藥師佛坐像

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