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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

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