A Thangka Depicting Chudapantaka and Kanakavatsa, Tibet, 19th Century

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A Thangka Depicting Chudapantaka and Kanakavatsa

Tibet, 19th Century

25⅜ by 15 in. (64.5 by 38.1 cm)

the arhat Chudapantaka seated on a throne chair at left, wearing elaborate brocaded robes, with a gray beard and pate, a devotee sitting beneath, the arhat Kanakavatsa seated on the right in three-quarter pose, wearing patchwork robes of red and orange and holding a long jeweled lasso in both hands, seated on a rock platform under a blossoming tree, with two devotees on either side, all set amidst foliage, rocks, trees and wildlife

Himalayan Art Resources item no. 13728.

Private Collection of Henry Dormann, gifted by the 14th Dalai Lama, circa 2002.

Henry O. Dormann (1938 - 2018) was an entrepreneur, author and the Chairman and Editor-in-chief of LEADERS magazine. Throughout his life he met with some of the most influential leaders of his time, including the 14th Dalai Lama who gifted him this thangka. In his book, The Speaker's Book of Quotations, Random House Publishing Group, 2002, Kindle Edition, Dormann says, "His Holiness the Dalai Lama is a quiet, sweet, very simple holy man on the outside, but a very complex and hardworking leader of his faith on the inside."