A gilt-copper alloy figure of Trisong Detsen Tibet, 18th - 19th century | 十八至十九世紀 西藏鎏金銅赤松德贊坐像

Please note that the provenance for this lot is: Sotheby's New York, 24th September 1997, lot 105. 請注意本拍品的來源為：紐約蘇富比1997年9月24日，編號105。

Trisong Detsen (r. 755-798)  was the second Great King of Tibet, who established Samye Ling as the first Buddhist monastery in Tibet, and invited the Indian guru Padmasambhava to bring Buddhism to the land: Padmasambhava is revered by Tibetan Buddhists who regard him as a second Buddha. Another gilt copper alloy figure of Trisong Detsen, one of a group of the Three Great Kings of Tibet, illustrated in Martin Brauen, ed., The Dalai Lamas: A Visual History, Zürich, Chicago, 2005, pp. 28-29, pl. 14 a-c, was sold in our Paris rooms, 11th December 2020, lot 40.