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Lot Essay
The inscription can be translated as follows:
'I prostrate myself in front of the feet of Avhadhuti who has extinguished both extremes (that everything is permanent and temporary), who, without being insecure about the large seal of the mystic unity, acts as a child who knows nothing and has acquired magical forces of the knowledge of the major luck of immortality.
It concerns the fifth sculpture of a serie.'
Avadhutipa (1010-1089) was a brahman who became a student of the famed Buddhist teacher Naropa at Nalanda monastery. He subsequently studied at Vikramasila monastery, where he raised the ire of his fellow monks by drinking alcohol. This act instigated his expulsion from the institution by its abbot, the peerless Buddhist teacher Atisa (980-1054). The disgraced monk became an itinerant yogi and continued his studies while being a wandering mendicant.
'I prostrate myself in front of the feet of Avhadhuti who has extinguished both extremes (that everything is permanent and temporary), who, without being insecure about the large seal of the mystic unity, acts as a child who knows nothing and has acquired magical forces of the knowledge of the major luck of immortality.
It concerns the fifth sculpture of a serie.'
Avadhutipa (1010-1089) was a brahman who became a student of the famed Buddhist teacher Naropa at Nalanda monastery. He subsequently studied at Vikramasila monastery, where he raised the ire of his fellow monks by drinking alcohol. This act instigated his expulsion from the institution by its abbot, the peerless Buddhist teacher Atisa (980-1054). The disgraced monk became an itinerant yogi and continued his studies while being a wandering mendicant.