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3255 The bronze is precise, elegant, and well proportioned. It depicts the
A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF first Tibetan master of the Sakya’s lamdre tradition, and one of the
DROGMI LOTSAWA SHAKYA YESHE great agents of the chidar, Drogmi Lotsawa (c.993-1077). He studied
TIBET, 16TH CENTURY in India and returned to Tibet, teaching and translating a broad array
Inscription translated, ‘Homage to Drogmi Lotsawa [the translator of tantric doctrines that came to form the core of Tibetan Buddhism’s
Drogmi]’. various schools. He received the lamdre teachings from the Indian
Himalayan Art Resources item no.2275 master Gayadhara (944-1043) and passed them onto the Sakya’s
7 1/2 in. (19 cm) high order’s great founder Sachen Kunga Nyingpo (lot 3259). A related
portrait of approaching quality was sold at Sotheby’s, New York, 23
US$40,000 - 60,000 March 1995, lot 158.
西藏 十六世紀 銅鎏金卓彌洛擦瓦釋迦益西像 Published
Portraits of the Masters, pp.228-9, no.55.
Published & Exhibited
Monasterios y Lamas del Tibet, p.193, no.148.
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