A Celebration of Enlightenment: Buddhist Metalwork From The Collection of Tuyet Nguyet And Stephen Markbreiter
A Celebration of Enlightenment: Buddhist Metalwork From The Collection of Tuyet Nguyet And Stephen Markbreiter
Property from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection 雪月藏亞洲藝術珍品
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May 26, 02:57 AM GMT
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60,000 - 80,000 HKD
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Property from the Tuyet Nguyet and Stephen Markbreiter Collection
A gilt-bronze figure of Chakrasamvara and Vajravahari
Qing dynasty, 18th century
雪月藏亞洲藝術珍品
清十八世紀 鎏金銅勝樂金剛像
16.5 cm
Chakrasamvara and Vajravarahi are depicted engaging in the perfect union of wisdom and compassion in this dramatic and powerful sculpture. The statue serves as a device for the visualisation of the Chakrasamvara tantra, a secret treatise with its origin in medieval eastern India, used by practitioners to increase their ability to attain the ultimate goal of Enlightenment; for a succinct discussion on the content of the tantra, see John C. Huntington & Dina Bangdel, The Circle of Bliss: Buddhist Meditational Art, Columbus, 2003, pp. 264-268, where Robert A. F. Thurman notes in the foreword, p. 11:
"The arts and sciences of this Tantra are amongst the most extraordinary things in world culture, products of a tradition of accomplished adepts, spiritual artists of universal liberation who have emanated waves of beauty through the millennia".