A Large Clay Tsa-Tsa

TIBET, 18TH CENTURY

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A Large Clay Tsa-Tsa
Tibet, 18th Century
Depicting the Celestial Copper Mountain Palace of Padmasambhava, with a graveyard in the foreground ending by a lake, the base of the mountain rising from the waters, surmounted by the four-tiered pavillion, Padmasambhava appearing in the centermost position surounded by a retinue of deities, molded in relief within a raised arched rim, richly lacquered in polychrome throughout
15 in. (38 cm.) high

Literature

Spink, Visions of Perfect Worlds, Buddhist Art from the Himalayas, 1999, cat. no. 52.

Lot Essay

According to the Nyingma text the Seven Chapter Prayer, upon departing from this world, Padmasambhava went to mythical Copper Mountain, a paradise located in the center of a group of eight islands; see M. Rhie and R. Thurman, Wisdom and Compassion, 1996, cat. no. 232 for a painted version of the Copper Mountain Paradise.

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