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A GILT-COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF 十四至十五世紀 A GILT-COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF HEVAJRA
GREEN TARA 西藏鎏金銅綠度母坐像 NEPAL, 15TH CENTURY
TIBET, 14TH - 15TH CENTURY 9.5 cm
15.7 cm
HK$ 80,000-120,000
HK$ 60,000-80,000 US$ 10,300-15,500
US$ 7,800-10,300
This complex and intricately modelled figure represents The
Adamantine One, Hevajra, one of the principal meditational
deities of the Sakya order of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism, in
union with his consort Nairatmya.
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.

十五世紀 尼泊爾鎏金銅喜金剛像

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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A BODHISATTVA
TANG DYNASTY
12.3 cm

HK$ 30,000-50,000
US$ 3,900-6,500
It is difficult to identify the bodhisattva precisely, but another
Tang gilt-bronze figure of Manjushri, sold in our New York
rooms, 23rd September 2020, lot 595, shares the same style
as the current figure, similarly seated with left hand resting
on the knee, but with right holding a text that identifies the
bodhisattva as Manjushri, the embodiment of supreme
wisdom. See also the example in the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, accession number 1985.214.142, illustrated in Denise
Patry Leidy and Donna Strahan, Wisdom Embodied: Chinese
Buddhist and Daoist Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of
Art, New Haven, 2010, cat. no. A33.

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