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A SILVER INLAID BRASS ALLOY FIGURE OF
THE SEVENTH ABBOT OF NGOR MONASTERY,
KONCHOK PEL TIBET, 16TH CENTURY
THE SEVENTH ABBOT OF NGOR MONASTERY,
KONCHOK PEL
5 October 2020, 17:00 HKT
Hong Kong, Six Pacific PlaceSold for HK$50,625 inc. premium
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A SILVER INLAID BRASS ALLOY FIGURE OF
THE SEVENTH ABBOT OF NGOR MONASTERY,
KONCHOK PEL
THE SEVENTH ABBOT OF NGOR MONASTERY,
KONCHOK PEL
TIBET, 16TH CENTURY
With two Tibetan inscriptions on the top front of the base and around the foot.
12 cm (4 3/4 in.) high
With two Tibetan inscriptions on the top front of the base and around the foot.
12 cm (4 3/4 in.) high
Footnotes
銅錯銀俄爾寺第七任住持昆秋貝像
西藏 十六世紀
Tibetan inscription (on top of the base)
རྡོརྗེཆངདཀོནམཆོགའཕེལནམོ་
Transliteration
[1] rdo rje [']chang dkon mchog 'phe(l la) na mo
( ) contraction
Translation
Homage to Vajradhara1 Konchok Pel[wa].2
Tibetan inscription (around the foot of the base)
༄༅ །། བདག་ཀྱང་སྐྱེ་བ་འདྀ་ནས་བཟུང་ནས་ནྀ་ཇི་སྲིད་རྡོ་རྗེ་འཛིན་པ་མ་ཐོབ་པར་ཐུ་སྟོབས་དབང་ཕྱུག་བཞུང་དང་མི་འབྲལ་ཞིང་བླ་མའི་ཆོགས་གྱི་བྲན་དུ་སྐྱེ་བར་ཤེག །། དགེ་བའོ
Transliteration
[1] § | | bdag kyang skye ba 'd[i] nas bzung nas n[i] ji srid rdo rje 'dzin pa ma thob par [m]thu stobs dbang phyug [g]zhung dang mi 'bral zhing bla ma'i [tsh]ogs [k]yi bran du skye bar sh[o]g|| dge ba'o
[ ] emendation
Translation
May I too from this lifetime onwards remain inseparable from Thutob Wangchuk's3 views and be reborn to serve the excellent lama for as long as I have not obtained the state of enlightenment.4 May this be auspicious!
1A title given to several abbots of Ngor Monastery.
2The 7th abbot of Ngor Monastery Konchok Pelwa (1445-1514; dkon mchog 'phel ba).
3Mahāsiddha Virūpa also known as the 'Lord of Magical Power' (Thutop Wangchuk; mthu stobs dbang phyug).
4This particular prayer of aspiration can be found in several works composed by Sakyapa masters. The earliest recension of this stanza seems to be in the Precious Teachings of the Five Venerable Masters of the Glorious Sakya Tradition by Tashi Lhundrup (bkra shis lhun grub; 17th-18th century); see dPal ldan sa skya'i rje btsun gong ma lnga'i gsung rab rin po che'i par gyi sgo 'phar 'byed pa'i dakr chag 'phrul gyi lde'u mig.
Himalayan Art Resources item no.16845
treasuryoflives.org biography no.3200
BDRC Resource ID P1873
Provenance
London Art Market, 2007