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Lot 36
A FINE JATAKA THANGKA
Estimated Value:
2.000 € - 3.000 €
Schätzpreis:
5.500 €
Description:
Tibet, 18th/ 19th c.64,6 x 43,6 (127,5 x 73,3) cm
From the Life Story of the Great Reformer and Scholar Tsong Khapa (1357-1419). Dedication, reverse:
"Do not commit even a single misdeed;
Conduct yourself with utmost virtue.
Tame even your own mind completely.
This is the teaching of the Buddha.
The obligations of the body are good
The obligations of speech are good,
Likewise, the obligations of the mind are good.
Fully ordained people who keep all [these precepts],
will be liberated from all suffering."
(Quoted from "The Nuns' Pratimoksha Sutra")
s. G. Tucci, Tibetan Painted Scrolls; La Liberia Dello Stato, Roma MCMXLIX (1949); p. 433 (176-188); 531, fig.120). The present scroll painting is marked as the 6th from the left, and thus the penultimate of the entire series. Tempera and gold on cotton canvas, original silk satin border, with gold brocading:
Important German private collection, collected in the 1970s and 80s, largely acquired at Schoettle Ostasiatica, Stuttgart
Published: Thangka Calendar 1997, Wind Horse Publishing House, Month November
Tucci's translation of the legends from Tibetan: 176. In dGa'lden he wrote the treatises on the evocative and perfect method, wich are connected with bDe mc'og's cycle, and other treaties, and he received the prophecy from Jams dbyangs. 177. the blama rTogs ldan pa sees in a dream some mK'a'agro washing a mC'od rten. 178. while he was having chapels and sacred images made in Yangs pa can of dGa lden, he had a vision of bDe mc'og and of the deities of his haeven. 179. when he consecrated the temple, he had a vision of images of rD rje jigs byed, so plentiful that they filled up space and were penetratíng into the earthenware images (placed in the temple itself). 180. in dGa lden he preaches uninteruptedly. 181. he accomplishes the explanation of the Madhyamika-avatara and explains it (to the monks). 182. he preaches to numberless monks proficiant in the sacred scriptures, on bDe mc'og's fundamental Tantras and on the parts of the Law and he writes the commentaries. 183. he dedicates offerings and songs to the C'os bsrungs. 184. to numberless monks, versed in the sacred scriptures, he explains the Dus kyi k'or lo, Jig byed's cycle etc. 185. he goes from dGa' ldan to Lhasa. 186. in Lhasa he dedicates endless offerings and makes vows. 187. having gone to C'ab ts'an in sTod lung, he gives many gilded images, preaches and bestows his blessing. In the C'u mig monastery he had a vision of the gods of gSan dus' cycle, which disappeared into hím and received their prophecy
Wear, traces of age, minor rest.
