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A rare thangka depicting Kuntu Zangpo, Tibet, circa 15th century | 西藏約十五世紀普賢王如來唐卡設色布本

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Property from the collection of Richard R. and Magdalena Ernst

A rare thangka depicting Kuntu Zangpo

Tibet, circa 15th century

distemper on cloth, the deity wearing just a loincloth, with hands in dhyanamudra, and seated in meditation on a lion throne, with halos behind, and a flowering vine to the sides, surrounded by the lamas and deities of the Drenpa Akar Gongdü lineage, and monks in the lower register wearing white elongated meditation caps, together with offerings and dancing laypersons

66 x 56.5 cm, 26 by 22 1/4 in.

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Collection Richard R. et Magdalena Ernst

Rare tangka représentant Kuntu Zangpo, détrempe sur toile, Tibet, circa XVe siècle

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西藏約十五世紀普賢王如來唐卡設色布本

Per Kvaerne, The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living Tradition, London, 1995, pl. 12.

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 73118.

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Per Kvaerne，《西藏波苯教 : 傳統生活圖像學》，倫敦，1995年，圖版12

喜瑪拉雅藝術資源，物件編號73118

A mantra on the reverse of the painting describes Küntu Zangpo in this form as a divine manifestation of the eighth-century sage Drenpa Nankha, often referred to by Bonpa simply as lachen, The Great Lama, see Per Kvaerne, The Bon Religion of Tibet: The Iconography of a Living Tradition, London, 1995, p. 119. Black scrollwork on a blue background, as seen throughout this rare and early depiction of Küntu Zangpo, is a common device in central Tibetan painting in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and often associated with Sakya paintings with Nepalese influence, cf. the background scrollwork on a Sakya mandala dated to ca. 1429-56 in Steven M. Kossak and Jane Casey Singer, Sacred Visions: Early Paintings from Central Tibet, New York, 1998, p. 170, pl. 47c.

A rare thangka depicting Kuntu Zangpo, Tibet, circa 15th century | 西藏 約十五世紀 普賢王如來唐卡 設色布本

A rare thangka depicting Kuntu Zangpo, Tibet, circa 15th century | 西藏約十五世紀普賢王如來唐卡設色布本