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A COPPER INLAID COPPER ALLOY FIGURE A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF ‘GREAT GYER’
OF A KAGYU LAMA TIBET, 14TH CENTURY
TIBET, 13TH/14TH CENTURY Inscription translated, ‘Homage to the Great Gyer’.
Himalayan Art Resources item no.2312 Himalayan Art Resources item no.2308
4 3/4 in. (12 cm) high 4 3/4 in. (12 cm) high
US$4,000 - 6,000 US$5,000 - 7,000
西藏 十三／十四世紀 錯紅銅噶舉喇嘛銅像 西藏 十四世紀 “大噶爾”銅像
Published After considering other possibilities, Dinwiddie concludes that this
Portraits of the Masters, pp.182-3, no.40. figure most likely represents Gyergom Tsultrim Sengge (1144-
1204). Tsultrim Sengge, of the Gyer clan, was born to a line of
Published & Exhibited hereditary chiefs in the Yarlung Valley and received his administrative
Monasterios y Lamas del Tibet, p.187, no.140. responsibilities early in his monastic career, as the overseer of Tandruk
Temple. He went on to found Shukseb Monastery in 1181, associated
Provenance with Chod tradition teachings common to the Nyingma and Kagyu
Sotheby’s, New York, 4 June 1994, lot 238 schools. The monastery was absorbed by the Gelug in the early 20th
century, and is now one of the most active nunneries in Tibet.
Published
Portraits of the Masters, pp.174-5, no.34.
Published & Exhibited
Monasterios y Lamas del Tibet, p.184, no.135.
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