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A GILT-BRONZE STANDING FIGURE OF MANDARAVA 十六/十七世紀 鎏金銅曼達拉娃佛母像
16TH-17TH CENTURY
來源:
The deity is depicted standing on a lotus base, leaning slightly to the side,
holding a kapala in one hand, and the other held in vitarka mudra. She wears 紐約佳士得1999年3月23日，拍品130
a long robe with incised and beaded borders and an elaborate headdress,
foliate-shaped earrings and garland, inset with two coral beads
6 in. (15.2 cm.) high
£10,000-15,000 US$13,000-19,000
€12,000-17,000
PROVENANCE:
Christie's New York, 23 March 1999, lot 130.
Mandarava was the wife of Padmasambhava, the famous Indian teacher,
and founder of the Nyingmapa order of Tibetan Buddhism. According to
legend, as discussed by Rinpoche Tulku Thondup in Buddhist Civilization in
Tibet, 1987, p. 32, Padmasambhava enraged the king of Sahora by preaching
Buddhism to his daughter. He was ordered to be burnt alive in a valley flled
with wood and oil. However, his miraculous powers saved him by turning
the oil into a lake as he emerged accompanied by dancing dakinis on a lotus
stalk. The king overwhelmed by the display converted to Buddhism and gave
his daughter to Padmasambhava in marriage.

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