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PROPERTY FROM THE YANG FAMILY COLLECTION
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A BRONZE FIGURE OF PADMASAMBHAVA WITH
MANIFESTATIONS AND DISCIPLES
TIBET, 16TH-17TH CENTURY
7æ in. (19.7 cm.) high
$30,000-50,000
PROVENANCE:
Private collection, Munich, by repute.
Koller, Zürich, 13 June 2017, lot 123.
LITERATURE:
Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 24745.

This rare bronze depicts Padmasambhava, the first transmitter of Buddhism
into Tibet and the founder of the Nyingma sect of Tibetan Buddhism,
surrounded by his eight manfestations and two disciples. The former sits
on a lotus base supported by a stalk emerging from another lotus base, the
former are elegantly arranged in loops of lotus stem that forms an aureole
around the central figure. Compare with another bronze figural example
of Padmasambhava surrounded by his disciples in a lotus-stalk aureole,
illustrated by T. Chen, Sattvas and Rajas: The Culture and Art of Tibetan
Buddhism, 2004, p. 121, cat. no. 73. See, also, another example in the collection
of the Rubin Museum of Art, illustrated on Himalayan Art Resources, item no.
65283.

西藏 十六/十七世紀 銅蓮花生大士坐像
來源:
私人珍藏, 慕尼黑 (傳)
Koller, 蘇黎世, 2017年 6月13日, 拍品編號123
出版:
“喜馬拉雅藝術資源” (Himalayan Art Resources), 編號24745

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