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A finely painted Tibeto-Chinese thangka portraying Tsong Khapa, 18th/early 19th century.

Estimate
25 000 - 30 000 SEK
2 350 - 2 820 EUR
2 650 - 3 180 USD
Hammer price
Unsold
Purchasing info
A finely painted Tibeto-Chinese thangka portraying Tsong Khapa, 18th/early 19th century.

Colour pigment and on cotton, 67 x 46,5 cm. Brocade-framing 93 x 66 cm.

Damages, damp-damages.

More information

Delicately painted with Tsong Khapa seated on a lotus throne in the center, and with his hands in the teaching gesture holding the stems of shoulder lotuses supporting the sword of critical wisdom on the left and the Transcendent Wisdom book on the right. On both sides of the throne, his main disciples Gyaltsab Je and Khedrup Je.
In upper left corner Maitreya, and upper right corner Manjushri, above Tsong Khapa at center we find the image of Shakyamuni Buddha. At bottom center Yamaraja with Chamunda on a mahey buffalo, flanked by Vaishravana on the white snow lion to the left, and to the right, the Lion-Headed Dakini.