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A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF A BON TEACHER A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF SHERAP CHAMMA
TIBET, 17TH CENTURY TIBET, 15TH/16TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no.61926 With a Tibetan inscription at the bottom of the throne, translated, “[...]
6 1/4 in. (16 cm) high the One Who Removes Fear[...]”.
Himalayan Art Resources item no.61932
$8,000 - 12,000 7 3/4 in. (19.5 cm) high

西藏 十七世紀 銅鎏金苯教上師像 $8,000 - 12,000

The teacher wears a distinctive ‘lotus hat’ worn by monastic scholars 西藏 十五/十六世紀 希繞強瑪銅像
of the Bon religion. The hat consists of repeated petal-like sections,
here totaling eight in number, each chased with floral designs. See Sherap Chamma, “Loving Lady of Wisdom”, is the meditational form
another bronze figure of a Bon teacher wearing a ten-petaled lotus hat of one of Bon’s Four Transcendent Lords, the female deity Satrig
in a private collection (HAR 66766). Ersang. One of her epithets revers her as, “the one who removes fear”,
repeated in this bronze’s inscription. See another bronze image of
the deity with slightly different iconography published in Per Kvaerne,
The Bon Religion of Tibet, Boston, 1996, pp.52-3, no.10. The distinct
aureole with floral motif is similar to that of a 15th-century central
Tibetan Vajradhara published in Pal, Art from the Himalayas and China,
Pasadena, 2003, p.141, no.93.

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