A GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF THE BODHISATTVA JNANAKETU

TIBETO-CHINESE, QIANLONG MARK AND PERIOD (1736-1795)

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A GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF THE BODHISATTVA JNANAKETU
Tibeto-Chinese, Qianlong Mark and Period (1736-1795)
Finely cast seated in dhyanasana on a lotus base with the lowered right hand holding a jewel, the hair worn in long plaits and gathered up into a chignon behind the five-leaf diadem, the face with serene expression flanked by pendent earrings, the base inscribed with seven-character Qianlong mark on a cartouche at the front of the base, the base sealed and incised with the visvavajra
5½ in. (13.5 cm.) high

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This figure is identified by the characters Zhihuiding Pusa inscribed on the edge of the lotus base (Jnanaketu in Sanskrit). The reverse of the base has a further four-character inscription which reads yujia genben, 'central to the study of yoga tantra'.
A similar figure from the Gogong, Beijing, bearing the same inscription, is illustrated in W.E. Clark, Two Lamaistic Pantheons, 1965, p. 146.

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