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                  A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF VAJRAPANI               西藏   十四/十五世紀   鎏金銅金剛手菩薩立像
                  TIBET, 14TH-15TH CENTURY
                                                                  來源:
                  5¿ in. (13 cm.) high                            Nasli及Alice Heeramaneck伉儷珍藏,鈕約,1969年前。
                  $6,000-8,000                                    維吉尼亞州藝術博物館,入藏於1969年 (館藏編號69.8.34)。
                  PROVENANCE:
                  Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck Collection, New York, before 1968.
                  Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, accessioned in 1968 (acc. no. 68.8.34).
                  LITERATURE:
                  Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 24665.




                  The wrathful or  yidam  tutelary deity stands in a powerful lunge, or
                  alidhasana. His face is modeled in a fierce expression, with sharp fangs,
                  wide eyes, and fiery orange hair. His right hand brandishes a vajra, the
                  left in tarjani mudra, as his arms are decorated with snake ornaments and
                  his waist a tiger pelt. Vajrapani, originally a peaceful bodhisattva in the
                  Mahayana tradition (see the previous lot), has a wrathful manifestation
                  within the Tantric or Vajrayana Buddhist tradition.





































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