Gilt bronze Sakya Lama

Manager ID

1019

Title

Gilt bronze Sakya Lama, probably Sonam GyantsenTibet, 17th centuryCould be Sonam Lhundrup (MDL)

Short title

Gilt bronze Sakya Lama

Record number

BATEA : 1011

Simple name

lama

Classified name

metal; bronze; Tibet; figure; lama; Buddhist; Buddhism; religion; mudra; gesture; lotus; hat; hair; sect; Sakya; portrait; figure; teaching; named;

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A gilt brass portrait figure of a lama, probably Sonam Gyantsen. The head is covered with a full-bottomed wig-shaped hat, his robe is elaborately etched and pitted with flowers and cash-type circles. His right arm is bare and his hands are raised in front of his chest in the teaching gesture (dharmachakra mudra). The figure is seated crossed-legged with soles up on a lotus plinth which extends all the way round. The well-formed fat petals are turned up in the upper section of the plinth and turned down in the lower section.

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brass

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body
decoration	gilt

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9.8 cm

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