
Mark Rasmussen
International Director
Sold for US$17,500 inc. premium
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The standard set of paintings depicting the life story of Je Tsongkhapa, designed in the early 18th century by Jamyang Shepa (1648-1721/22), has fifteen individual compositions. Typically hung in the grand hall of monasteries, they illustrate how, throughout his previous lives, Tsongkhapa, the 15th century saint and scholar of Tibet, cultivated the Path leading to Enlightenment and how his spiritual progression was attested by prophecies of all the Buddhas of the past.
For others from a similar set see Guiseppi Tucci, Painted Scrolls and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, (Acc.#1960-131-7).
Provenance:
Property from the Hunter Museum of American Art sold to benefit future acquisitions, 1968-2013
Anna C. Turner Collection