Balsojidungtsetsan distemper on paper Tibet

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Description

Balsojidungtsetsan
distemper on paper
image 5 by 2 1/2 in. (12.7 by 6.35 cm.)
folio 6 1/2 by 3 7/8 in. (16.51 by 9.9 cm.)

The Bon deity standing in graceful abhanga holding a lance with pennon in his right hand and making an instructional gesture with his left.

Literature

Hugo E. Kreijger, Tibetan Painting, The Jucker Collection, Boston, 2001, p. 170, no. 69.

Catalogue Note

The delicately drawn tsakali depicts Balsojidungtsetsan, one of thirteen Bon religious teachers offering instruction in the intermediate state between death and rebirth. Compare the posture and minimum of clothing with the bodhisattvas flanking the Jucker Amitabha, lot 48 above. Compare other Bon tsakli; see Kvaerne, 2001, pp. 130-1, pls. 45.1-2, 48.