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                                                                        A SET OF THREE GILT-COPPER ALLOY                              A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE              Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi are depicted   & Dina Bangdel, The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist
                                                                        FIGURES OF YOGINI                                             OF CHAKRASAMVARA AND              engaging in the perfect union of wisdom and   Meditational Art, Columbus, 2003, pp. 264-
                                                                        TIBET, 16TH CENTURY                                           VAJRAVAHARI                       compassion in this dramatic and powerful   268, where Robert A. F. Thurman notes in the
                                                                        20.2 to 20.8 cm                                               QING DYNASTY, 18TH CENTURY        sculpture. The statue serves as a device for   foreword, p. 11:
                                                                                                                                                                        the visualisation of the Chakrasamvara tantra,
                                                                        These originally emanate from a mandala of a tutelary deity.  16.5 cm                           a secret treatise with its origin in medieval   “The arts and sciences of this Tantra are
                                                                                                                                                                        eastern India, used by practitioners to increase   amongst the most extraordinary things in world
                                                                        HK$ 40,000-60,000                                             HK$ 60,000-80,000                 their ability to attain the ultimate goal of   culture, products of a tradition of accomplished
                                                                                                                                                                                                          adepts, spiritual artists of universal liberation
                                                                        US$ 5,200-7,800                                               US$ 7,800-10,300                  Enlightenment; for a succinct discussion on the   who have emanated waves of beauty through
                                                                                                                                                                        content of the tantra, see John C. Huntington
                                                                                                                                                                                                          the millennia”.
                                                                                                                                      清十八世紀
                                                                        十六世紀 西藏鎏金銅瑜伽母像三尊
                                                                                                                                      鎏金銅勝樂金剛像




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             FIVE MINIATURE GILT-COPPER ALLOY
             BUDDHIST FIGURES
             12TH - 19TH CENTURY
             Comprising:
             a small gilt-bronze figure of Tsongkhapa, Qing dynasty,
             18th/19th century, 4 cm;
             a copper alloy figure of Raktayamari, Nepal or Tibet, 14th
             century, 9.1 cm;
             a gilt-copper alloy figure of a yogini, Nepal, 15th century,
             6.5 cm;
             a copper alloy figure of Nagaraja, Tibet 12th/13th century,
             7 cm; and
             a gilt-bronze figure of Jambhala, Qing dynasty, 18th/19th
             century, 3.2 cm.

             HK$ 20,000-30,000
             US$ 2,600-3,900

             十二至十九世紀 鎏金銅袖珍佛像五尊                          117













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