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Lot 140
STATUETTE D'AVALOKITESHVARA SHADAKSHARI EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE TIBET OCCIDENTAL, XIVE SIÈCLE
15 December 2022, 14:00 CET
Paris, Avenue Hoche€5,000 - €8,000
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STATUETTE D'AVALOKITESHVARA SHADAKSHARI EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE
TIBET OCCIDENTAL, XIVE SIÈCLE
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 205054
21 cm (8 1/4 in.) high
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 205054
21 cm (8 1/4 in.) high
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A COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF AVALOKITESHVARA SHADAKSHARI
WEST TIBET, 14TH CENTURY
西藏西 十四世紀 四臂觀音菩薩銅像
This figure depicts Avalokiteshvara as the personification of the mantra, om mani padme hum ('hail to the jewel in the lotus'), whose six syllables represent the seeds of the six realms in the great cosmic wheel. This ubiquitous Tibetan mantra is thought to contain the essence of the bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara as the Lord of Compassion.
Several closely related examples of Shadakshari Avalokiteshvara from western Tibet can be found in museums, including one in the Brooklyn Museum, New York (79.259.2) and another in the Tibet Museum – Fondation Alain Bordier in Gruyères, Switzerland (ABS 025). Also compare the facial features, crown type, and earrings to a western Tibetan figure of Vairochana, published in Rhie and Thurman, Wisdom Embodied, 1991, p. 347, no. 140.
Provenance:
Blythe Road Auctions, London, 2000s
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