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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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