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A RARE GILT-COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF 十三至十四世紀
HEVAJRA AND NAIRATMYA 尼泊爾西部卡薩馬拉王朝或藏西
WESTERN NEPAL, KHASA MALLA OR WESTERN
TIBET, 13TH - 14TH CENTURY 鎏金銅喜金剛像
12.4 cm
HK$ 300,000-500,000
US$ 38,700-64,500
This complex and powerfully modelled figure represents 本像造型精細而形態威武，刻劃喜金剛交抱明妃無
Hevajra, one of the principal meditational deities of the 我母。喜金剛，乃藏傳佛教金剛乘薩迦派修襌重要
Sakya order of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism, in union with 神祇。
his consort Nairatmya.
此像工藝雖源自尼泊爾， 卻非明顯為加德滿都谷地
Although the craftsmanship of the sculpture is Nepalese in
origin, the style is not immediately recognisable as the work 風格。卡薩馬拉王朝沿用部份古典尼泊爾傳統，個
of the Kathmandu Valley itself. The sculpture emanates from 別元素則另有來源。 本喜金剛像或出自卡薩馬拉王
the Khasa Malla kingdom, where certain classical Nepalese 朝，背面無鎏金處漆紅彩，如此做法，乃卡薩馬拉
traditions were followed but with individual elements drawn 鎏金銅器典型，參考Ian Alsop，〈 The Metal Sculpture
from other sources. In common with many Khasa Malla gilt of the Khasa Malla Kingdom〉，《Orientations》，香
sculptures, the ungilded section on the reverse is painted 港，1994年6月，圖載一尊十三至十四世紀例，與本
red. For a full discussion of Khasa Malla sculpture see Ian 品幾乎完全相同，圖6 （https://www.himalayanart.org/
Alsop, ‘The Metal Sculpture of the Khasa Malla Kingdom’, imageremote.cfm?icode=59106），該例銘梵文題款，記
Orientations, Hong Kong, June 1994, where he illustrates an
almost identical 13th/14th century sculpture, fig. 6 (https:// 載捐贈善信名號「shreshthi thagu」「nigalhana devi」
www.himalayanart.org/imageremote.cfm?icode=59106), ，兩名均非源自加德滿都谷本地。本像其他特徵亦可
inscribed with a Devanagari inscription recording the 與其他卡薩馬拉王朝製佛像比較，推斷同為卡薩馬拉
donation of the figure by ‘shreshthi thagu’ and ‘nigalhana 王朝製，洛杉磯郡立美術博物館收藏一尊卡薩馬拉王
devi’, names foreign to the Kathmandu valley. Other features 朝空行母像，銘款，雙蓮底座精確結構及風格與本
that clearly place the current sculpture within the corpus of 像相近，藏品編號M.85.221（https://collections.lacma.
known Khasa Malla examples include the precise structure org/node/251195）。觀其火焰曼陀羅風格，與芝加
and style of the double lotus base, similar to that on an
inscribed Khasa Malla dakini in the Los Angeles County 哥 Pritzker 收藏一尊觀音像作例相近，後者銘文記載
Museum of Art, M.85.221 (https://collections.lacma.org/ 為「Ashokachalla」而捐贈，出處同上，圖2（https://
node/251195) and the treatment of the flaming mandorla, www.himalayanart.org/imageremote.cfm?icode=59102）。
similar to that found on a sculpture of Avalokiteshvara with
an inscription reading ‘donated for Ashokachalla’ in the 喜金剛之形像，於一部八世紀印度經文論及，參考
Pritzker collection, Chicago, illustrated ibid, fig. 2. (https:// Rob Linrothe，《Ruthless Compassion》，倫敦，1999
www.himalayanart.org/imageremote.cfm?icode=59102). 年，頁268-9，文章引述《喜金剛本續》其他英譯選
段，並論述喜金剛之形像。
Hevajra is described in an 8th century eastern India treatise
that is beautifully interpreted in this rare sculpture ... “There
at centre am I, O Fair One, together with you... . Fearful am I
to fear itself, with my necklace made from a string of heads
... . Black am I and terrible ... but my inner nature is tranquil,
and holding Nairatmya in loving embrace, I am possessed
of tranquil bliss”, see Rob Linrothe, Ruthless Compassion,
London, 1999, pp. 268-9 for further translated verses of the
Hevajra Tantra and a lucid discussion on the iconography of
the deity.

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