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

A rare thangka depicting Kunzang Gyalwa Dupa, Tibet, 18th century | 西藏 十八世紀 貢桑嘉瓦堆巴唐卡 設色布本

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Property from the collection of Richard R. and Magdalena Ernst

A rare thangka depicting Kunzang Gyalwa Dupa

Tibet, 18th century


distemper on cloth, with five heads and ten arms, holding symbols of the sun and the moon before his heart, his emblem the swastika in his middle right hand, seated in vajraparyankasana on a throne, with khyung bird and mythical animals beneath, the landscape filled with lamas of Kunsang Gyalwa Dupa’s cult

73 x 42 cm, 28 3/4 by 16 1/2 in. 

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Collection Richard R. et Magdalena Ernst

Rare tangka représentant Kunzang Gyalwa Dupa, détrempe sur toile, Tibet, XVIIIe siècle

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西藏 十八世紀 貢桑嘉瓦堆巴唐卡 設色布本

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 18460.

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喜瑪拉雅藝術資源,物件編號18460

The deity is known by his epithet The All-Good Assembly of Conquerors: for an important fifteenth century depiction of the deity with the same iconography, see Per Kvaerne, The Bon Religion of Tibet, London, 1995, p. 61, pl. 15.