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Lot 124
FIVE ANICONIC MANDALAS OF DIFFERENT DEITIES
Estimated Value:
1.500 € - 2.500 €
Result:
1.036 € incl. Premium and VAT
Description:
Tibet/Amdo (?), 19th c.146 x 97 cm, R.
Large temple painting from the Gelugpa school with five aniconic mandalas. In these mandalas, the deities and their retinue are marked in the centre only by their attributes. Such mandals are designed for practitioners who are familiar with the contents of the meditation images through appropriate initiations and no longer need the iconographic representations of individual deities. Between the mandalas, which appear visionary in celestial space and hilly landscape, are depicted numerous Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, and Dharma Protectors. At the apex of the painting are Tsong Khapa (1357-1419), the founder of the Gelugpa tradition, and his two disciples Khedrub Geleg Pelsang (1385-1438) and Gyelwa Gendün Drub (1391-1474). Follow to the left: The "Buddha of Long Life" - Amitayus, and the Mahasiddha Tilopa; to the right: the Green Tara, and a patriarch of the Gelugpa. Following in a straight line below the Tsong Khapa: The Tathagata Vajrasattva (yab-yum), Buddha Amitabha, EkadashamukhaAvalokiteshvara and the red-coloured Naro Khachöma. On the left side are depicted the Buddhas of the three times, and below them the Tathagata Amitabha (yab-yum). On the right side appear the "Three Protectors of the Teaching": ShadakshariLokeshvara (white), Manjushri (yellow) and Vajrapani (blue). Below them is the green-coloured Tathagata Amoghsiddhi (yabyum). In the bottom row are depicted: The two Tathagatas Ratnasambhava (yellow) and Akshobhya (blue) with their respective partners, and in the two corners are appearances of Cakrasamvara on their lotus flowers, in yab-yum. Tempera on cotton canvas. Framed under glass.
South German private collection, acquired before 1980 from Schoettle Ostasiatica Joachim Baader, Stuttgart, no. 6059
Published: Tibetica 16, Schoettle East Asian Art, 28.7.1971, no. 6059 - Minor wear and very minor traces of age
