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fig. 1
Sadaksari-Lokesvara, Ming dynasty, Yongle period
Jokhang inv. no. 257(B)
Photograph by Ulrich von Schroeder, 1996

圖一
明永樂 喀什米爾鎏金銅四臂觀音
拉薩大昭寺，藏品編號. 257(B)
烏爾裡希．馮．施羅德攝，1996年

This finely cast gilt-bronze sculpture of Sadaksari 參考拉薩大昭寺藏二件近類永樂鎏金銅四臂觀音，面塗
Avalokiteshvara is a personification of the bodhisattva 泥金，錄於烏爾裡希．馮．施羅德，《西藏佛教雕塑》
Avalokiteshvara’s six syllable (sadaksari) mantra, om mani ，香港，2001年，卷2，頁1275，圖版355B-C（圖一）
padme hum (homage to the jewel in the lotus). The first 。Berti Aschmann 舊藏一例，現存雷特伯格博物館，刊
known description of the mantra appears in the Karandavyuha 於 Helmut Uhlig，《On the Path to Enlightenment: The
Sutra compiled at the end of the 4th century or beginning of Berti Aschmann Foundation of Tibetan Art at the Museum
the 5th century AD, where Shakyamuni Buddha introduces Rietberg》，蘇黎世，頁100-101，圖版53，另一件尺寸較
Avalokiteshvara, and praises the mantra as being the 小，載於《金銅佛造像圖錄》，鴻禧美術館，台北，1993
most beneficial. The popularity of this mantra led to its 年，頁75，編號30。並參考一件永樂鎏金銅四臂觀音
personification and this form of Avalokiteshvara is the patron, 像，2002年3月20日售於紐約蘇富比，編號171，及另一件
and one of the most popular deities in Tibet. All Dalai Lamas 2005年5月30日售於香港佳士得，編號1245。
are believed to be earthly manifestations of this deity.

For a closely related Yongle gilt-bronze figure of Sadakshari
Avalokiteshvara in the Jokhang, Lhasa, with cold-painted face,
see Ulrich von Schroeder, Buddhist Sculptures in Tibet, Hong
Kong, 2001, vol. II, p. 1275, pl. 355B-C (fig. 1). Other examples
include one of the same size from the Berti Aschmann
Collection in the Museum Rietberg, illustrated in Helmut
Uhlig, On the Path to Enlightenment: The Berti Aschmann
Foundation of Tibetan Art at the Museum Rietberg, Zurich, pp.
100-101, pl. 53, and a smaller example, illustrated in Buddhist
Images in Gilt Metal, Chang Foundation, Taipei, 1993, p.
75, no. 30. For Yongle gilt-bronze figures of Sadakshari
Avalokiteshvara sold at auction, see the example sold in our
New York rooms, 20th March 2002, lot 171, and another at
Christie’s Hong Kong, 30th May 2005, lot 1245.

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