尺寸：69.5 × 47 cm
年代：16世纪(1573–1619, 明代万历时期)
质地：唐卡(Distemper on cloth)
风格：西藏
来源：纽约大都会博物馆
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鉴赏：
Buddha Shakyamuni and Scenes of His Previous Lives (Jataka Tales)
Tibet
1573–1619

This painting depicts a rare subject in Tibetan art, the life of Buddha Shakyamuni and his previous incarnations as told in the Jataka tales. These stories form an essential component of the Buddhist cosmology. Two Jatakas recount the central teaching of bodhisattva’s self-sacrifice: Sibi Jataka in which the bodhisattva cut off his own flesh to feed the hungry, and the tale of Prince Sattva, who committed suicide in order to gift his body to a tigress so she could feed her starving cubs. This thangka has a Chinese inscription dating the work to the reign of the Ming Emperor Wanli (r. 1573–1619), as well as Tibetan glosses identifying the scenes depicted. The presence of the Tibetan inscriptions indicates that this thangka was made for a Tibetan client. Depicted around the central icon of a radiant Buddha are the narratives, each with mountains and monastic buildings serving as scene dividers.

Inscription: Inscribed in Chinese: “Made in the Wanli reign of the great Ming dynasty”

来源:
[ The Zimmerman Family Collection , New York, until 2012, sold to MMA]

展览:
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. “Masterpieces of Tibetan and Nepalese Art: Recent Acquisitions,” September 17, 2013–February 2, 2014.

著录:
Giles, Beguin, ed. Dieux et Démons de l'Himâlaya: Art du Bouddhisme Lamaïque. Exh. cat. Paris: Editions des Musées Nationaux, 1977, pp. 231–32, cat. no. 270.

Pal, Pratapaditya. Tibetan Paintings: A Study of Tibetan Thankas, Eleventh to Nineteenth Centuries. Basel, Switzerland: Ravi Kumar, 1984, p. 132, fig. 61.

Pal, Pratapaditya. “American Collectors of Asian Art.” Mārg (1986). pp. 176, 180, 184, fig. 14.

Pal, Pratapaditya. Art of the Himalayas: Treasures from Nepal and Tibet. Exh. cat. New York: Hudson Hills Press, 1991, pp. 168–69, cat. no. 99.