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 5. A rare thangka depicting Gayadhara and Drokmi, Tibet, 16th century | 西藏 十六世紀 嘎雅達拉及卓彌大譯師釋迦智唐卡 設色布本.

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

A rare thangka depicting Gayadhara and Drokmi, Tibet, 16th century | 西藏 十六世紀 嘎雅達拉及卓彌大譯師釋迦智唐卡 設色布本

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8,000 - 12,000 EUR

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Property from the collection of Richard R. and Magdalena Ernst

A rare thangka depicting Gayadhara and Drokmi

Tibet, 16th century


distemper on cloth, Gayadhara wearing a red cap with lappets and seated on a lion throne in discourse with Drokmi, with Vajrabhairava in clouds above, and surrounded by deities and a Sakya lineage of Indian mahasiddhas and Tibetan hierarchs, monks and adepts, with an officiating lama in the lower register seated at an altar table laden with offerings

65 x 54 cm, 25 5/8 by 21 1/4 in. 

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Collection Richard R. et Magdalena Ernst

Rare tangka représentant Gayadhara et Drokmi, détrempe sur toile, Tibet, XVIe siècle

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恩斯特伉儷收藏

西藏 十六世紀 嘎雅達拉及卓彌大譯師釋迦智唐卡 設色布本

Please note that the two monks on this painting are Gayadhara and Drokmi and not as previously identified. Please refer to the updated description and footnote in the catalogue. The dating of the thangka remains unchanged. __________________________________________________________________________ 敬請注意，本唐卡人物為嘎雅達拉及卓彌大譯師釋迦。請參考更新後的描述及註解。本唐卡年代不變。

The Indian pandita Gayadhara (994-1043) and his disciple Drokmi Lotsawa (992-1072/74) were two important masters in the transmission of the Lamdre teachings, the fundamental tenet of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. This rare painting is one of a series of Sakya lineage thangkas, with others from the set in museum and private collections: one example with similar composition featuring two Sakya hierarchs is in the Rubin Museum of Art, see Marylin M. Rhie and Robert A. F. Thurman, Worlds of Transformation, New York, 1999, p. 287: and another in a private collection, see Pratapaditya Pal, Tibetan Paintings, Basel, 1984, pl. 37: another in the Musée Guimet, see Gilles Béguin, Les Peintures du Bouddhisme Tibétain, Paris, 1995, p. 398, cat. 306: and two Indian mahasiddhas from the Sakya lineage appear on an example in the Zimmerman Collection, see Pratapaditya Pal, Art of the Himalayas: Treasures from Nepal and Tibet, New York, 1991, p. 164, pl. 95

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