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銅鎏金班禪仁欽確布像
西藏 十六世紀
Tibetan inscription
པཎ་ཆེན་རིན་ཆེན་སྐྱོབ་ལ་ན་མོ།
Transliteration
[1] paṇ chen rin chen skyob la na mo | |
Translation
Homage to Panchen Rinchen Kyob.1
1This Buddhist master could be the little-known Sakya scholar Panchen Rinchen Kyoba Pel (sa skya pan chen rin chen skyob pa dpal).
Himalayan Art Resources item no.16860
This eccentric teacher wears his pandita hat in a rather curious way, folded flat on his head with the lappets draped over the back. He also has a wide, childlike smile more ebullient than is common for Tibetan portraiture. He holds his hand in the gesture of 'progressing the Dharma', from which emerge the stems of two lotuses blossoming by his shoulders, supporting a vajra and a ghanta. For other examples of teachers wearing flat folded pandita hats, see a bronze figure of Chokyi Palsang in the Carolyn and Wesley Halpert Collection (HAR 90814), and an unidentified lama in the John and Berthe Ford Collection (HAR 73875).
Provenance
The Dani & Anna Ghigo Collection, London, acquired 4 June 1974
Christie's, New York, 22 March 2011, lot 317