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Lot 125
Five aniconic mandalas of different deities
Estimated Value:
2.000 € - 3.000 €
Result:
9.065 € incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
Tibet, Amdo (?), 19th c.137,5 x 96 cm (149,5 x 108 cm R.)
Large temple painting from the Gelugpa school with five aniconic mandalas. In these mandalas, the deities and their retinue in the centre are only identified by their attributes. Such mandalas are intended for practitioners who are familiar with the content of the meditation images through appropriate initiations and no longer need the iconographic representations of the individual deities. Numerous Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and Dharma protectors are depicted between the mandalas, which appear visionary in the heavenly space and in the hilly landscape.
From a Franconian private collection, collected between 1960 and 1990, presumably acquired from Schoettle Ostasiatica in Stuttgart - Traces of age, framed
