A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF NAGAKANYA, THE DAUGHTER OF THE DRAGON KING SAGARA

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600 € - 1.000 €

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China, Ming dynasty
H. 14,3 cm
Collection of the German painter Joachim Schlotterbeck (1926-2007), Wuerzburg, sold Nagel, Stuttgart, 6.5.1995, Lot 397a
Chapter 12 of the Lotus Sutra contains the well-known episode of Sāgara's daughter, known simply as nāgakanya ("nāga maid en"), whose transformation allows her to procure the male body of a bodhisattva, followed by becoming a fully enlightened Buddha. This event was preceded by Mañjuśrī's visit to Sāgara's ocean palace, where he taught the Lotus Sutra to the nāgas. A very similar bronze of Nagakanya is preserved in the collection of the Capital Museum Beijing and published ‚The Goddess of Mercy in Buddhism - Chinese Ancient Avalokiteshvara Bodhisattva‘, Beijing 2008, pp. 30-1, no. 5 - Minor wear to gilding

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