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RARE STATUE REPRESENTANT
PROBABLEMENT MILAREPA EN BRONZE
ET CUIVRE
TIBET, XVEME-XVIEME SIECLE
Il est représenté assis les jambres croisées sur une
base lotiforme en cuivre recouverte d'une peau de
tigre. Sa main droite est levée en vitarkamudra et
sa main gauche est en varadamudra. Il est vêtu de
robes monastiques richement brodées. Son visage
serein est encadré de longs lobes d'oreille et de
nattes lui tombant sur les épaules ; scellée.
Hauteur: 19 cm. (7Ω in.)
€50,000-70,000 US$56,000-78,000
£44,000-61,000
PROVENANCE:
Private Collection, Connecticut, acquired in 1993
in New York.
Christie's New York, 21 March 2008, lot 655.
Important French private collection, acquired
from Ulrich and Heidi von Schroeder Collection,
Switzerland, 20 June 2013.
A RARE BRONZE AND COPPER FIGURE OF
PROBABLY MILAREPA
TIBET, 15TH-16TH CENTURY
西藏 十五/十六世紀 銅上師坐像（應爲密勒日巴）
來源：
私人舊藏，康乃狄克州，于1993年購自紐約
紐約佳士得，2008年3月21日，拍品655號
重要法國私人珍藏，于2013年6月20日購自
Ulrich and Heidi von Schroeder私人珍藏

Milarepa (1040-1123) is sometimes thought of as the
frst ordinary Tibetan to become a perfect Buddha
in one lifetime. As a young man he successfully
mastered black magic to take revenge on a wicked
uncle wrongfully claiming inheritance. He then
repented to practice Buddhism with his teacher
Marpa, who put him through terrible ordeals of
constructing, dismantling and reconstructing a
nine-story tower four times over before starting
to teach him. Profoundly gifted as a singer and
poet, he communicated Buddhism through song
and poetry and is credited with numerous popular
Tibetan folk songs.
This statue belongs to the Byang lugs or “northern
style” of Western gTsang in Southern Tibet, north
of the gTsang po river. “This style is distinguished by
a strong realism and can include ornamentation in
relief work” (U. Von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures
in Tibet, volume two, Tibet & China, Visual Dharma
Publications Ltd., Hong Kong 2001, p. 1126).

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