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AN IMPORTANT AND WELL-PRESERVED THANGKA OF TSONGKHAPA AND HIS LIFE STORY, TIBET, 18TH CENTURY
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2025年10月16日 开拍
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AN IMPORTANT AND WELL-PRESERVED THANGKA OF TSONGKHAPA AND HIS LIFE STORY, TIBET, 18TH CENTURYDistemper and gold paint on cloth, mounted on a silk frame. Finely painted with Tsongkhapa featured prominently center left, seated on a cushion and holding a hat in his hands, dressed in loose-fitting monastic robes, surrounded by numerous scenes from his life scattered within a unifying landscape separated by clouds, trees, mountains, and valleys. The upper margin with a central roundel enclosing numerous Buddhas next to a nine-deity mandala.The events depicted include: 1. Tsongkhapa traveling to central Tibet, studying at major monastic universities like Sakya, Drikung, and Nartang which are represented as temple complexes populated with monks.2. The dream Tsongkhapa had while in retreat where he saw great Indian scholars, one of them, Buddhapalita (470-540 AD), blessed him with an Indian volume, thus confirming that Tsongkhapa's philosophical understanding was correct.3. Tsongkhapa writing his famous treatise The Great Presentation on the Graduate Stages of the Path.4. The Red Fort of Songtsen Gampo.5. The establishment of the Great Prayer Festival at Jokhang, the main cathedral of Lhasa, when Tsongkhapa made an offering of a gold crown to the main image of Buddha Shakyamuni.Provenance: From an old private collection in France.Condition: Excellent condition with minor wear, the vibrant colors extremely well preserved, with expected minor flaking to pigments, and little creasing. The mounting with few losses and scattered tears.Dimensions: Image size 78.5 x 53.5 cm, Size incl. frame 129 x 78 cmThe painting is mounted as a hanging scroll with a silk frame centered below the image by a small square panel woven with lotus and chrysanthemum against a key-fret brocade ground.The main figure in this large biographical thangka is the Tibetan Buddhist teacher and author Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), founder of the Gelug order of Tibetan Buddhism. He and his disciples established the important monasteries of Ganden (1409), Drepung (1416), and Sera (1419). Tsongkhapa is considered the spiritual father of the Dalai Lama lineage and an incarnation of the bodhisattva Manjushri.The pictorial narrative closely follows known biographies of Tsongkhapa and shows recorded events and places, often recognizable through their architecture, Tsongkhapa's visionary experiences at the sites, or straightforward illustrations of the events. The painting was part of a set of paintings that narrated his life's achievements. Tsongkhapa appears numerous times, receiving gifts from emissaries, delivering a sermon within a large monastery, teaching, and meditating.Literature comparison:Compare a closely related painting depicting the same subject, dated to the 18th century, 92.3 x 68.5 cm, formerly in the collection of Navin Kumar and now in the Rubin Museum of Art, object number C2009.2.Auction result comparison: Type: Closely related Auction: Bonhams San Francisco, 27 June 2017, lot 8013 Price: USD 31,250 or approx. EUR 35,500 converted and adjusted for inflation at the time of writing : A thangka of Tsongkhapa, Central Tibet, 19th century Expert remark: Compare the closely related subject and manner of painting, albeit in the more common composition showing Tsongkhapa in the center. Note also the later dating and smaller size (66 x 45 cm).

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