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A thangka from a mahasiddha set: Padmasambhava, Arya Nagarjuna, and King Indrabhuti Eastern Tibet, Palpung style, 19th century image 1
A thangka from a mahasiddha set: Padmasambhava, Arya Nagarjuna, and King Indrabhuti Eastern Tibet, Palpung style, 19th century image 2
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A thangka from a mahasiddha set: Padmasambhava, Arya Nagarjuna, and King Indrabhuti
Eastern Tibet, Palpung style, 19th century

14 September 2015, 14:00 EDT
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A thangka from a mahasiddha set: Padmasambhava, Arya Nagarjuna, and King Indrabhuti

Eastern Tibet, Palpung style, 19th century
Distemper on cloth; set within a refined, clouded landscape.
Image: 18 3/8 x 12 in. (46.7 x 30.5 cm); With silks: 37 x 18 1/8 in. (94.1 x 46.2 cm)

Footnotes

西藏東部 八蚌風格 十九世紀 大悉達唐卡組畫之一:蓮花生大士, 龍樹菩薩及因陀羅部底王

This refined thangka is the central painting of a set of three depicting the Eight Great Siddhas according to the system of Situ Panchen Chokyi Jungne (1700-1774). Situ Panchen produced two such sets, one of which was presented to the King of Derge while requesting permission to build Palpung monastery (see Jackson, Patron and Painter, New York, 2009, pp. 10-1, 137-8 & 152).

Derived from Situ's originals, the present thangka includes hallmarks of 19th-century Kham painting under Jamgon Kongtrul (1813–1899), particularly the grey monochrome clouds with thumbnail-shaped indentations and the boldly colored nimbi. These characteristics are shared with two closely related examples held in the Rubin Museum of Art (ibid., pp. 149 & 153, figs 7.18 & 7.21).

Referenced:
HAR - himalayanart.org/items/31513

Provenance:
Collection of Lobsang P. Lhalungpa (1926-2008)
Acquired either in Tibet before 1947 or India before 1971

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