Lot 827
827
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF TSONGKHAPA
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF TSONGKHAPA
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF TSONGKHAPA
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF TSONGKHAPA
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Important Chinese Art from a North American Private Collection
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF TSONGKHAPA

LATE 17TH-EARLY 18TH CENTURY

Details
A GILT-BRONZE FIGURE OF TSONGKHAPA
LATE 17TH-EARLY 18TH CENTURY
415⁄16 in. (12.5 cm.) high, cloth box
Provenance
Chang Foundation Collection, Taipei, by 1993.
Literature
Chang Foundation, Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, Taipei, 1993, pp. 128-9, no. 57.
Exhibited
Taipei, Chang Foundation, Buddhist Images in Gilt Metal, 1993, no. 57.

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Lot Essay

Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419) is the founder of the Gelug order of Tibetan Buddhism, the "newest" of the extant schools. Tsongkhapa studied the traditions of the Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyü, and particularly Kadam lineages, and codified certain principles of all of them in the Gelug tradition. Today, the order is the most popularly followed in Tibet, with its head, the Dalai Lama, seen as the spiritual leader of the country.

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