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尺寸：高20.3cm
年代：15世纪
质地：合金铜鎏金
风格：西藏
来源：拍卖会
成交：未成交(2018.10)
参阅：香港邦瀚斯
鉴赏：
A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF VAJRADHARA
TIBET, CIRCA 15TH CENTURY
Himalayan Art Resources item no.61634
20.3 cm (8 in.) high

西藏 約十五世纪 銅鎏金金剛總持坐像
古比特佛像网, 编号: 金刚总持:金刚总持134

From metaphysical debates on the multiplicity and unity of Buddhas, arises the notion of an Adi-Buddha: a primordial source of enlightenment pervading the universe, from which all things come and into which all enlightened beings dissolve. Vajradhara represents the Adi-Buddha in most Tibetan Buddhist schools. He crosses Vajrayana's ubiquitous symbols, the vajra and ghanta, before his chest in the vajrahumkara mudra. However in this charismatic sculpture, these symbols for Wisdom and Compassion blossom from his activity on lotuses by his shoulders. To represent Vajradhara is paradoxical, given the Adi-Buddha is formless, however it allows the practitioner to reference an ineffable, underlying reality.

Provenance
Peter Fussel, London, 1973