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TIBETAN PAINTINGS FROM THE COLLECTION
OF RALPH GLASGAL (LOTS 401-416)
TIBETAN PAINTINGS FROM THE COLLECTION OF RALPH GLASGAL
(LOTS 401-416)
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A PAINTING OF BUDDHA SHAKYAMUNI, POSSIBLY FROM A 西藏東部 十八/十九世紀 釋迦牟尼像
PALPUNG-STYLE JATAKA SET (或為八蚌風格釋迦牟尼佛傳組圖之一)
EASTERN TIBET, PALPUNG MONASTERY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
出版:
Image 22√ x 16¡ in. (58.1 x 41.6 cm.) “喜馬拉雅藝術資源” (Himalayan Art Resources), 編號24732
$6,000-8,000
LITERATURE:
Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 24732.

The present painting depicts Buddha Shakyamuni at center seated on a
lotus base with his hands in bhumisparshamudra, representing the moment
he called the earth to witness his enlightenment. Various vignettes depicted
throughout the landscape appear to include moments in the previous lives
of the Buddha, the stories known as jatakas. Due to the painting's close
adherence to the Situ Panchen style of Eastern Tibet, it is possible this
painting comes from a set of eleven paintings that depict the Jataka tales
as described by Situ Panchen Chokyi Jungne in 1726. Such paintings depict
Buddha Shakyamuni at center with the hundred Jataka tales represented as
small illustrations spread throughout the sparsely-inhabited landscape of all
eleven paintings. Compare the present work with a painting in the Shechen
Archives assertively associated with the Situ Panchen Jataka set, illustrated
on Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 15408.
Handprints and an inscription on the back of the painting indicate the work
was dedicated by an important personage, likely of Palpung Monastery. The
inscription is translated as "The Buddha, as the sun, is the embodiment of a
supreme luminous appearance free from internal darkness, I prostrate to the
internal maker of daylight."

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