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A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF A BUDDHA
TIBET, 15TH-16TH CENTURY
7 in. (17.8 cm.) high
$5,000-7,000
LITERATURE:
Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 24739.
This finely cast and richly-gilt image likely depicts either the nirmankaya
form of the tathagata, Vairochana, or the historical buddha, Shakyamuni. The
figure holds his hands in the teaching gesture associated with Vairochana,
but the iconography is complicated by the presence of a vajra on the top of
the lotus base. Images of a buddha with his hands in bhumisparshamudra
and containing a similarly-placed vajra have been identified as Buddha
Shakyamuni at the moment of his enlightenment at Vajrasana (Bodh Gaya).
Compare the present work with a smaller gilt-bronze figure of Amoghasiddhi
illustrated by U. von Schroeder in Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, Hong Kong, 1981,
p. 428, fig. 112C; both works share the languidly-draped sanghati, delicately
modeled hands and fingers, and lithe torso.

西藏 十五/十六世紀 鎏金銅佛坐像
出版:
“喜馬拉雅藝術資源” (Himalayan Art Resources), 編號24739

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