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尺寸：高15.8cm
年代：清代 18世纪
质地：铜鎏金
风格：北京
来源：拍卖会
成交：未成交(2007.11)
参阅：伦敦邦瀚斯
鉴赏：
A fine gilt-bronze figure of Vajradhara
18th century
Cast with a benign face under a five-leaf tiara encircling a high chignon, the deity dressed in dhoti and adorned with elaborate jewellery hanging over the bare chest, the arms raised and crossed holding a vajra and a ghanta, seated cross-legged in dhyanasana on a double-lotus
pedestal 15.8cm (6 1/4in) high

十八世紀 銅鎏金持金剛坐像
古比特佛像网, 编号: 金刚总持:金刚总持135

Provenance: Koller, Zurich, 18 September 2010, lot 126
A distinguished European private collection

來源：2010年9月18日於蘇黎世闊樂拍賣，拍品126號
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The primordial Buddha Vajradhara is the root-deity of many Tantric Buddhist teachings, personification of the dharmakaya, truth body of enlightenment and progenitor of the Vajrayana system of Buddhism. According to beliefs generated within the New (Sarma) Schools, Vajradhara is the 'Secret and Inner' form of Shakyamuni Buddha and embodies the combined essence of all the Buddhas of the Ten Directions and the 'Three Periods of Time'. A similar gilt-bronze figure of Vajradhara, 17th century, in the collection of the Guimet Museum, Paris, is illustrated in illustrated in Himalayan Art Resources, item no.85940.