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9/2/2020 Indian, Himalayan & Southeast Asian Works of Art | Sotheby's

Indian, Hi ma layan & Southeast Asian Works of Art
New York |22 Sep 2020 | 12:00 PM EDT

Lot 311

A SILVER FIGURE OF THE FIFTH SHARMAPA , KONCHOK YANGLAK, TIBET, 17TH CENTURY
Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 USD

PROPERTY FROM AN EAST COAST COLLECTION
A SILVER FIGURE OF THE FIFTH SHARMAPA, KONCHOK YANGLAK
TIBET, 17TH CENTURY

the lama seated in meditation posture on a cushion base, with the right hand resting on his knee and the left hand holding a
flaming jewel, wearing robes of a monastic decorated with incised borders of clouds and foliate patterns, his eyes cast downward
in meditative concentration, the red hat of the Shamar lineage crowning his head, showing the three-jeweled emblem illustrated
on the front flanked by cloud patterns and topped with the crescent sun and moon pattern above

Height 7 ⅞ in. (20 cm)

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13715.

Provenance
William H. Wolff, Inc., 1977

Catalogue Note
The inscription at the base of the sculpture identifies this figure as the Fifth Sharmapa, Konchok Yanglak: ‘Homage to the red hat
holder Konchok Yanglak! Mangalam’ ( ་དམར་ཅོད་པན་འཛ ན་པ་དཀོན་མཆོག་ཡན་ལག་ལ་ན་མོ་མ ྒ་ལཾ།). The Fifth Sharmapa (1525 - 1583) was born in the Kongpo
district and formally enthroned by the Eighth Karmapa, Mikyo Dorje (1507–1554) as the reincarnate of the red hat lineage. Having
completed his studies by the age of twelve, "his fame for learning, discipline, and kindness soon spread widely." (D. P.

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