佛像网

尺寸：高17cm
年代：15世纪
质地：铜鎏金
风格：西藏
来源：拍卖会
成交：31,875欧元(2022.10)
参阅：外部链接
鉴赏：
STATUETTE DE BOUDDHA DE MÉDECINE EN ALLIAGE DE CUIVRE DORÉ
TIBET, XVE SIÈCLE
Himalayan Art Resources item no. 4617
17 cm (6 3/4 in.) high
Footnotes

A GILT COPPER ALLOY FIGURE OF MEDICINE BUDDHA
TIBET, 15TH CENTURY

西藏 十五世紀 銅鎏金藥師佛像

Provenance:
With Claude de Marteau, Brussels, by 1970s

The cult of the Medicine Buddha started in Northern India before spreading to the Himalayas, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. He is widely worshiped in both Vajrayana and Mahayana Buddhism to assist practitioners in overcoming physical, mental, and spiritual sickness, and to purify karmic debt. According to the Bhaisajyaguru sutra, he resides in the Eastern Pure Land of Vaiduryanirbhasa, which in Sanskrit literally means 'Pure Lapis Lazuli', drawing a parallel to his blue body that shines brighter than the sun.

The Medicine Buddha, here, wears an elegant sanghati with a beaded hem which cascades over the left shoulder, displaying punch marks along the edge indicating the interior patterning of the hemline. This alternating use of beading and punching is also seen in the treatment of the robes of Gampopa from the Portraits of the Masters sale at Bonhams, New York, 14 March 2017, lot 3225. The widened lotus leaves along the front which have been flattened and articulated with hatch marks at the back are stylistic elements linked to the workshop of Sonam Gyaltsen from the Tsang province of Shigatse in Central Tibet during the 15th century and can be closely compared to a Buddha image in the Rubin Museum of Art (HAR 700092).