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A THANGKA OF WHITE TARA With the complexion of the autumn moon, White Tara offers her
TIBET, 20TH CENTURY right hand in the gesture of charity while her left grips the stem of a
Distemper on cloth. flowering lotus. She bestows longevity on practitioners and remains
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 4733 widely popular in Tibet and China. This composition showing twenty
Image: 65 x 48 cm (25 5/8 x 19 in.); further emanations of her is derived from the Twenty-One Praises of
With silks: 137 x 78 cm (54 x 30 3/4 in.) Tara said to have been spoken by the Buddha Samantabhadra. A
related example of this composition is in the Rubin Museum of Art,
HKD45,000 - 65,000 New York (HAR 672). Two early-20th-century thangkas from the Tucci
Collection share many stylistic elements (HAR 741 & 4143).
西藏 二十世紀 白度母唐卡
Provenance
Private New England Collection, acquired 1970s

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