Sakya Monastery: Sachen Kunga Nyingpo
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Sakya Monastery: Sachen Kunga Nyingpo
CHINA, Tibet, Shigatse
Sachen Kunga Nyingpo was the First Patriarch of the Sakya school of Tibetan Buddhism. This 14th to 15th century artwork depicts him as a charismatic religious leader with little hair, white eyebrows, silver mustache, a broad forehead, and bright eyes. The monastic robe is incised with flowers. The figure sits in full lotus position with one hand lowered in the varada (wish-granting) mudra and the other hand lifted in a mudra. A series of mantras are carved on the lower rim of the inverted lotus throne.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, page 901.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Sakya Monastery: Sachen Kunga Nyingpo." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, vol. 12, 2016, pp. 901.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Yann Lovelock, Yuan Chou, Susan Huntington, Gary Edson, and Robert Neather. 2016. "Sakya Monastery: Sachen Kunga Nyingpo" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr, 12:901.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Lovelock, Y., Chou, Y., Huntington, S., Edson, G., & Neather, R.. (2016). Sakya Monastery: Sachen Kunga Nyingpo. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Sculpture N-Sr (Vol. 12, pp. 901).
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