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Eleven-Faced, Thousand-Armed
We commissioned this hand-painted copy of a Western Tibet (Guge) tangka in the Robert Hatfield Ellsworth Private Collection. It was formerly in the Tucci Collection. The original is dated second half of the 15th century. This creation took seven months of daily work to complete and is hand signed (very rare) by the artist Sanjaya Maila Donu, a Newari living in the ancient city of Patan in the Nepal Himalayas. Sized pigments on cotton Mounted in a Tibetan silk brocade frame
Painting with silk brocade:
$3200.00 |
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beautiful painting of the Bodhisattva of Compassion, Avalokiteshvara (Chenrezi
to Tibetans), is one of the finest known in all Tibetan art. It portrays
this incarnation of inconceivable mercy in his most powerful royal form,
with eleven faces, one thousand eyes, and one thousand arms. He is
saluted in a common Tibetan prayer as 'The holy Avalokiteshvara, who has
the thousand arms of the thousand universal monarchs, the thousand eyes
of the thousand Buddhas of this good eon, and who manifests whatsoever
is appropriate to tame whomsoever!' "
Robert A.F. Thurman From the book Wisdom and Compassion: The Sacred Art of Tibet, © 1991, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., pg. 327. |
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Main figure |
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Faces |
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1000 arms |
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Lower left corner |
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