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PROPERTY FROM A FRENCH PRIVATE COLLECTION

An inscribed copper-alloy seated figure of a Lama, Tibet, 16th century

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5,000 - 8,000 EUR

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Description

Height 15.5 cm, 6⅛ in.

French Private Collection, formed in Marseille between 1980 and 1989.

The inscription on the lotus base reads:


ཨོཾ་སྭསྟི།

ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྣམ་རྒྱལ་སྐུ་འདྲ་འདི།

ཆོས་བུ་བསོད་ནམས་རབ་བརྟན་གྱིས།

ཆོས་མཐུན་བཞེངས་པའི་བསོད་ནམས་ཀྱིས།

ཆོས་ཀྱི་རྟག་ཏུ་འཚོ་བར་ཤོག།

མངྒལཾ།


'OM svasti!

The statue of Choekyi Namgyal,

Made by the Dharma son Sonam Rabten,

Merit of making such a precious statue, 

May the dharma live forever.

Mangalam!'


We are very grateful to Karma S. Gelek for his assistance for translating and researching the inscription on this figure.