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3275 Identified by the inscription, Lowo Kenchen Sonam Lhundrup
A SILVER INLAID COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF (1456-1532) is shown holding two lotus stems that blossom by his
LOWO KENCHEN SONAM LHUNDRUP shoulders, bearing a book and a sword. Sonam Lhundrup started to
TIBET, 16TH CENTURY receive teachings in his infancy: from Jamyang Sherab Gyatso at the
Inscription translated, ‘I bow down with devotion at the lotus age of one, from Sonam Gyeltsen Pelzangpo at the age of two, and
beneath the feet of ‘Glorious and Good’ (Pelzang) [the master] who many others later on. In turn, he was the teacher of a great number of
spontaneously realised the two assemblies of merit (Sonam Lhundrup) accomplished Sakya masters, including the ninth and tenth abbots of
and primordial awareness, who is a source of the virtuous and fine the Ngor monastery, and the twenty-second Sakya Trizden, Jampai
Doctrine and a treasury of Dharma, and who holds the sublime victory Dorje. One of the greatest Sakya scholars of the 15th-16th centuries,
banner of benefit and happiness. Good Fortune!’. Sonam Lhundrup is well represented in Tibetan portrait sculpture.
Himalayan Art Resources item no.2331 Another of him is published in Dieux et demons de l’Himalaya, Paris,
4 3/8 in. (11.3 cm) high 1977, p.153, no.152.

US$15,000 - 20,000 Published
Portraits of the Masters, pp.268-9, no.75.
西藏 十六世紀 銅錯銀羅俄索南倫珠像
Published & Exhibited
Monasterios y Lamas del Tibet, p.206, no.172.

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