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LOT 259 Eastern Tibet, 18th/19th century A rare thangka of Shri Heruka

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57cm x 81 cm (22 5/8in x 32in, with silk mount: 85.5 x 167.5 cm (33 6/8 x 66in).

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A rare thangka of Shri Heruka


Eastern Tibet, 18th/19th centuryThe winged Chemchok Heruka with a blue, white and red face, each with a wrathful expression heightened by flaming eyebrows, bulging eyes, and gaping mouth, in yab-yum with his lighter blue consort, his large wings stretching out behind him against the aureole of flames of pristine awareness, surrounded by a host of retinue figures including Bardo deities, female gatekeepers, transformation deities, Brahmini and manifestations of Herukas, all amidst vaporous clouds, the reverse with a stupa-form Tibetan inscription behind the central figure consisting of sanctification and blessings mantras in Sanskrit and dharanis in Tibetan script. 57cm x 81 cm (22 5/8in x 32in, with silk mount: 85.5 x 167.5 cm (33 6/8 x 66in).
|西藏東部 十八/十九世紀 彩繪赫魯嘎像唐卡Provenance: Navin Kumar, ParisFournier Collection, ParisA European private collection, acquired from the above in the 1980's來源:巴黎古董商Navin Kumar巴黎Fournier收藏歐洲私人收藏,於1980年代購自上者Heruka, or 'blood drinker', usually refers to male wrathful deities who adopt a fierce countenance to benefit sentient beings. In this composition, the principal deity and his retinue figures relate to the transmigratory visions in the intermediary stage between death and rebirth known as Bardo, as described in the 'Bardo Thodol' ('Tibetan Book of the Dead'), which quotes:'The crucial point is indeed that those who have meditated on the formal description of these Herukakaya ('bodies of Heruka'), and also made offerings and praise to them, or, at the very least, have simply seen their painted and sculpted images, may recognise the forms that arise here and attain moksha (liberation).'The fierce and wrathful deities surrounding the central figure represent the visions produced by the psyche of the deceased during the stage of the fifth bardo (known as Chonyi bardo), which succeeds immediately after the moment of death and which precedes the sixth and last stage of bardo when the karmic energy of the individual is transmigrated to a new beginning. The succession of visions and progression to the various stages is dependent on the degree of mental perfection and the karmic nature of the deceased. The bells held by several deities in this current thangka symbolises the void, shunyata, the essence of all reality, dharmata.The treatment of the flames and the facial features of the deities of the present thangka compare with a thangka of Shri Heruka, 19th century, from the Rubin Museum of Art, New York (acc.no.F1997.12.2), illustrated in Himalayan Art Resources, no.194. Also compare with a thangka of Shri Heruka, 19th century, from the Rubin Museum of Art, New York (acc.no. P1998.15.1), illustrated in Himalayan Art Resources, no.702.The reverse has the following inscription:ཨོཾ་སརྦ་བིདྱ་སྭ་ཧཱ། ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་ཨཱ་ཡུཥེ་སྭ་ཧཱ།ཨོཾ་ཨཱ་ཧུཾ། བཛྲ་གུ་རུ་པདྨ་སིདྷཱི་ཧུཾ།ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་སཏྭ་ས་མ་ཡ། མ་ནུ་པཱ་ལ་ཡ། བཛྲ་སཏྭ་ཏེ་ནོ་པ། ཏིཥྛ་ཌི་ཌོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ། སུ་ཏོ་ཥྱོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ། ཨ་ནུ་རཀྟོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ། སུ་པོ་ཥྱོ་མེ་བྷ་ཝ། སརྦ་སིདྷི་མྨེ་པྲ་ཡཙྪ། སར་བ་ཀརྨ་སུ་ཙམྨེ། ཙིཏྟཾ་ཥྲི་ཡ། ཀུ་རུ་ཧུཾ། ཧཧཧཧོ་བྷ་ག་ཝན། སརྦ་ཏ་ཐཱ་ག་ཏ། བ་ཛྲ་མ་མེ་མུཉྩ། བ་ཛྲ་བྷ་ཝ་མ་ཧཱ། ས་མ་ཡ་སཏྭ་ཨཱ།ཨོཾ་བཛྲ་ཀྲོ་དྷ་མཧཱ་ཤྲཱི་ཧེ་རུ་ཀ། ཧུཾ་ཕཊ། ཨོཾ་རུ་ལུ་རུ་ལུ་ཧུཾ་བྷྱོ་ཧུཾ།ཨོཾ་ཡེ་དྷརྨ་ཧེ་ཏུ་པྲ་བྷ་ཝ་ཧེ་ཏུནྟེ་ཥཱན་ཏ་ཐཱ་ག་ཏོ་ཧྱ་ཝ་དཏ། ཏེ་ཥཨཱནྩ་ཡོ་ནི་རོ་དྷ་ཨེ་ཝཾ་བཱ་དི་མཧཱ་ཤྲ་མ་ཎ་ཡེ་སྭ་ཧཱ།ཨོཾ་སུ་པྲ་ཊིཥྛ་བ་ཛྲ་ཡེ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ།ཐུགས་ཉིད་ཞི་བའི་ངང་ལས་མ་གཡོས་ཀྱང་། འཇིགས་བྱེད་སྐུར་བསྟན་ཆེ་མཆོག་ཧེ་རུ་ཀཱ།གནམ་ཞལ་དབྱིངས་ཕྱུག་སྲས་འཁོར་བཅས་པ་དང་། བཛྲ་བུདདྷ་རཏྞ་ཧེ་རུ་ཀ།པདྨ་ཀརྨ་ཁྲག་འཐུང་རིགས་ལྔ་འབབ། བ་ཛྲ་ཀྲོ་དྷི་བྷུདདྷ་ཀྲོ་དྷི་དང་།རཏྞ་པདམ་ཀརྨ་ཀྲོ་དྷི་ཡུམ། གོོ་རི་ཙོོ་རི་པྲ་མོ་སི་ཏཱ་ལི།སུ་ཀ་ཀསྨ་སྨེཎ་ཤ་ཙནྜ་ལི། གནས་ཀྱི་མ་མོ་ཆེན་མོ་བརྒྱད་རྣམས་དང་།སིངྷ་བྱ་གྷྲི་སི་ལ་ཤ་ཎ་མ། ཀྲི་ཏ་ཀང་ཀ་ཁ་ཁཱ་ཧུ་ལུ་མ།ཡུམ་གྱི་ཕྲ་མེན་ཆེན་མོ་བརྒྱད་རྣམས་དང་། 'Eight Bardo deities'རྟ་གདོང་ཕག་གདོང་སྤྲེ་གདོང་སྤྱང་གདོང་མ། 'Four female gatekeepers'སྒོ་མ་བཞི་དང་སྤོར་བྱེད་ཆེན་མོ་བརྒྱད། 'Transformation of eight deities'ཚངས་མ་སོགས་དབང་ཕྱུག་ཉི་ཤུ་བརྒྱད། 'Twenty brahmini'ཁྲག་འཐུང་ལྔ་བཅུ་རྩ་བརྒྱད་ལྷ་ཚོགས་ཀྱི། 'Fifty-eight blood drinker deities'སྣང་བརྙན་རི་མོར་བྲིས་པ་དག། 'This painting was painted'ཚེ་འདས་གནམ་བར་དོའི་འཇིག་སྐྲག་ལས། 'to freed from frightening intermediate state'མཐར་ནས་ལྷ་མིའི་རྟེན་བཟང་ཐོབ་གྱུར་ཅིག། 'to receive support from celetial beings'དེ་བཞིན་གཤེགས་པ་ས་འཛིན་རྒྱལ་པོ་ལ་ཕྱག་འཚལ་ལོ།ཏདྱ་ཐཱ་དྷ་རེ་དྷ་རེ་དྷཱ་ར་ཎི་བྷེནྡྷ་སྭཱ་ཧཱ། ཤུ་བྷཾ།Translation by J.Watt, September 2018

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