
Mark Rasmussen
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蓮花生大士銅像
西藏 十六世紀
Padmasambhava (8th century) is the root guru of the Nyingma Order and is credited with introducing Buddhism to Tibet. This bronze depicts him with his classic iconography: holding a vajra in his right hand and a skull cup in the left, wearing a cap with the sun and moon, and having a 'semi-wrathful' furrowed brow bespeaking the intensity of tantric practice he is master of. A heavy robe wraps around his slender physique in accomplished pleats. Compare a related bronze sold at Sotheby's, New York, 24 March 2004, lot 74.
Provenance
London Art Market, 2006