Himalayas: The Richard R. & Magdalena Ernst Collection of Important Tibetan Paintings and other Himalayan Works of Art

Himalayas: The Richard R. & Magdalena Ernst Collection of Important Tibetan Paintings and other Himalayan Works of Art

View full screen - View 1 of Lot 9. A thangka depicting Vajradhara, Bhutan or South Tibet, 17th/18th century | 不丹或西藏南部 十七至十八世紀 金剛總持唐卡 設色布本.

Property from the collection of Richard R. and Magdalena Ernst | 恩斯特伉儷收藏

A thangka depicting Vajradhara, Bhutan or South Tibet, 17th/18th century | 不丹或西藏南部 十七至十八世紀 金剛總持唐卡 設色布本

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December 15, 11:10 AM GMT

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Property from the collection of Richard R. and Magdalena Ernst

A thangka depicting Vajradhara

Bhutan or South Tibet, 17th/18th century


distemper on cloth, with hands crossed at the wrist in prajnalinganabhinaya mudra holding the vajra and ghanta, and seated in vajraparyankasana on a lion throne surrounded by a lineage of Kagyu masters and Indian mahasiddhas, with Chakrasamvara below flanked by protector deities

86 x 57.5 cm, 33 7/8 by 22 5/8 in.

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Collection Richard R. et Magdalena Ernst 

Tangka représentant Vajradhara, détrempe sur toile, Bhoutan ou Tibet du sud, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle

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恩斯特伉儷收藏

不丹或西藏南部 十七至十八世紀 金剛總持唐卡 設色布本

Compare a seventeenth or early eighteenth century Bhutanese painting featuring Vajradhara, the progenitor of the Kagyu order, and a similar lineage of Kagyu masters in the Seula Gönpa, Punakha, see Terese Tse Bartholomew and John Johnson, eds., The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan, Chicago, 2008, pp. 308-11, cat. no 73.