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A PAINTING OF VAJRAYOGINI, DECHEN GYALMO 西藏東部 康區 十八至十九世紀初 金剛瑜伽佛母圖
EASTERN TIBET, KHAM PROVINCE 18TH-EARLY 19TH CENTURY
26Ω x 16º in. (67.3 x 41.3 cm.) 來源:
紐約蘇富比，2001年10月15日，拍品編號48。
$25,000-35,000
出版:
“喜馬拉雅藝術資源”(Himalayan Art Resources)，編號
PROVENANCE:
Sotheby’s New York, 15 October 2001, lot 48. 90046。
LITERATURE:
Himalayan Art Resources, item no. 90046.

Delchem Gyalmo, the "Queen of Great Bliss,” is a supreme emanation of
the dakini Vajrayogini, embodying the role of the mother of all buddhas.
She is depicted in the center of this painting, red-bodied, holding a
skull cup and hand drum in her hands and balancing a khatvanga in
her left arm. She is flanked by four yogini attendant figures, identical
to her in every way but color, as well as Varahi to her proper right and
Simhamukha to her left. Vaishravana, seated upon his guardian lion, is
depicted upon a lotus base below the mother goddess. The lay figure at
the top left corner of the painting wears a hat associated with the Palyul
monastery of the Nyingma lineage, in the southeastern Kham province
of Tibet. The faint color palette, sparse open landscape, and uncluttered
horizon are consistent with the Situ Panchen style of Tibetan painting,
which was developed and popularized in Kham.