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A THANGKA DEPICTING RAHULA AND BAKULA TIBET, 17TH CENTURY |
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30,000 - 50,000 USD
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Description
- Distemper on cloth
- 69 x 45 cm
the arhat Rahula above, seated on a dragon throne in his paradise with an assembly of attendants and holding the golden crown, the arhat Bakula below holding a nakula, and seated in the land of Uttarakuru, all set in a fabulous landscape with temples throughout Himalayan Art Resources item no. 18305.
Exhibited
“Dieux et démons de l’Himâlaya: Art du Bouddhisme lamaïque” Grand Palais, Paris, 25 March-27 June 1977; and Haus der Kunst, Munich, 5 August-16 October 1977
Literature
Jeannine Auboyer and Gilles Béguin, Dieux et démons de l'Himâlaya: Art du Bouddhisme lamaïque, Paris, 1977, p. 164, cat. no. 177