Palcho Monastery Kumbum Stupa Wish Fulfilling Shrine: Rinchen Zangpo
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Palcho Monastery Kumbum Stupa Wish Fulfilling Shrine: Rinchen Zangpo
CHINA, Tibet, Gyantse
This Palcho Monastery statue depicts the famous translator and eminent monk, Rinchen Zangpo. He was sent to study in India at an early age by the ruler of the Guge Kingdom in western Tibet and afterwards contributed greatly to the renewal and development of Tibetan Buddhism. He is shown wearing a red lama’s hat and a maroon monastic robe and under-tunic. Seated in full lotus position on a throne with cloud patterns, the figure’s raised right hand forms the vitarka (teaching) mudra while the left hand is held palm outwards over the knee in varada (wish-granting) mudra.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 801.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Palcho Monastery Kumbum Stupa Wish Fulfilling Shrine: Rinchen Zangpo." 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 Kumbum Stupa Wish Fulfilling Shrine: Rinchen Zangpo" 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 Kumbum Stupa Wish Fulfilling Shrine: Rinchen Zangpo. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 801).
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