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A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF KUNZANG GYALWA DUPA This gilded sculpture depicts Kunzang Gyalwa Dupa, the ‘All-good
TIBET, CIRCA 14TH CENTURY Collection of Conquerors’, who represents the combined power of all
Himalayan Art Resources item no.61925 Bon deities. The great Tibetan scholar, Sherap Gyaltsen (1356-1415),
6 1/4 in. (15.8 cm) high composed an invocation describing Kunzang Gyalwa Dupa. The
present bronze’s iconography matches his description, apart from not
$18,000 - 22,000 having the sun and moon disks held by his primary hands before his
chest. However, paintings and sculptures of Kunzang Gyalwa Dupa
西藏 約十四世紀 銅鎏金貢桑嘉瓦堆巴像 often vary the treatment of his primary hands (cf. Per Kvaerne, The
Bon Religion of Tibet, Boston, 1996, p.59, no.14; Sotheby’s, New
York, 22 March 2018, lot 953; and HAR 85587).

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