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PROPERTY FROM THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT KIPNISS
A Bronze Figure of Acala
TIBET, 12TH CENTURY
Details
A Bronze Figure of Acala
Tibet, 12th Century
Finely cast with one arm upraised and the other in tarjani mudra holding a rope, striding in alidhasana on the elephant-headed Vinayaka, wearing a tigerskin garment, snake around his abdomen, necklace with pendants, disk-shaped earrings with coiled snakes, and a tripartite headdress inlaid with hardstones, his face in a wrathful demeanor with bulging eyes, flared nostrils and bared fangs framed by curling hair, inscribed on the base with a mantra for Acala, Ohm Chanda Maharoshana Hum Phat, Ohm Ah Hum
17¾ in. (45 cm.) high
Tibet, 12th Century
Finely cast with one arm upraised and the other in tarjani mudra holding a rope, striding in alidhasana on the elephant-headed Vinayaka, wearing a tigerskin garment, snake around his abdomen, necklace with pendants, disk-shaped earrings with coiled snakes, and a tripartite headdress inlaid with hardstones, his face in a wrathful demeanor with bulging eyes, flared nostrils and bared fangs framed by curling hair, inscribed on the base with a mantra for Acala, Ohm Chanda Maharoshana Hum Phat, Ohm Ah Hum
17¾ in. (45 cm.) high
Literature
A. Heller, 'On the Development of the Iconography of Acala and Vighnantaka in Tibet,' Embodying Wisdom: Art, Text and Interpretation in the History of Esoteric Buddhism, R. Linrothe and H. So/renson, eds., 2001, pp. 209-28, fig. 3, p. 224.