Palcho Monastery Lamdre Hall: Dampa Sangye
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Palcho Monastery Lamdre Hall: Dampa Sangye
CHINA, Tibet, Gyantse
This statue portrays Dampa Sangye, one of the Eighty-Four Mahasiddhas in the Margapala lineage of the Vajrayana Sakya school. Known as Nagpopa or the Black One, he was an Indian Vajrayana Buddhist master who propagated the Dharma in Tibet and Nepal.
Dampa Sangye is adorned with numerous ornaments and sits with loosely crossed legs. His matted hair is tied in a topknot with loose locks curling to the shoulders. His facial features take on an Indian appearance, and the eyes stare leftward as the figure turns his head. Dampa Sangye holds Vajrayana implements such as double-sided drum, from which hangs a sacred banner and skull-bowl.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 801.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Palcho Monastery Lamdre Hall: Dampa Sangye." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 801.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Palcho Monastery Lamdre Hall: Dampa Sangye" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:801.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Palcho Monastery Lamdre Hall: Dampa Sangye. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 801).
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