A PAINTING OF AN INDIAN SCHOLAR

TIBET, 19TH CENTURY

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A PAINTING OF AN INDIAN SCHOLAR
TIBET, 19TH CENTURY
The scholar seated on a low throne and holding a manuscript in one hand, wearing patchwork robes and a pandita headdress, reaching for the table to his right, two attendants to the side, all set in a mountainous landscape, a stream with cranes and ducks in the foreground, ribbon-like clouds with white Manjushri above
23 ½ x 16 5/8 in. (59.7 x 42.2 cm.)

Literature

Himalayan Art Resource (himalayanart.org), item no. 23569

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Lot Essay

This thangka is from a set of nine paintings depicting The Six Ornaments and Two Excellent Ones of the Southern Continent, a name given to the group of most important Indian scholars of the Mahayana tradition in Tibetan Buddhism.

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