ABS 369
Code: ABS 369
Country: Tibet
Style:
Date: 1250 - 1350
Dimensions in cm WxHxD: 11,7 x 15,2 x 6,3
Materials: Brass with silver and gold inlays
Sita Tara – White Tara
Seated in vajraparyaṅka on a square throne base supported by four peacocks, the young goddess appears adorned with the ornaments of the saṃbhogakāya. Her right hand is extended with the palm turned outside in varada mudrā. She has extra eyes on her forehead, in the palm of her hands and the sole of her feet designating her as Sītā Tārā. She has large circular ear pendants and her hair is gather in a large bun enclosed in a cloth placed to behind her right shoulder. Her lower garment is decorated with vegetal scrolls inlaid with silver and gold.
The throne has a long Tibetan dedicatory inscription in dBu can script with numerous spelling mistakes:
ནམོ་
༄༅།། ཨོཾ་སུ་ཏི་རང་འཇོན་བྱོའི་ལི་ཀུ་འདི།། ཡོན་ཀྱི་དག་མོ་མིང་གྱན་གྱི་
གྲོགས་གྱི་ཆི་ཐག་སྲིང་ཕྱིར་གཞེངས༎ སྨིགས་ཡུལ་ཙོ་བྱས་སེམས་ཅན་རྣམ༎
པོ་ཏ་ལ་རུ་ཀྱེ་བར་ཤོག ༎ པོ་ཏ་ལ་རུ་ཀྱེས་ནས་ཀྱང་༎ སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་
ཀྱི་ཞབས་ཀྲུང་དུ༎ བྱིན་གདག་མ་ཁོར་བྱས་ཀྱེ་བར་ཤོག ༎ བཀྲ་ཤིས༎
Na mo
// om su [swa] ti [sti] rang ’jon byo’i li [s]ku ’di // yon [b]dag mo ming gyan gyi
grogs kyi chi [’chi] thag sring phyir gzhengs [bzhengs] // smigs [dmigs] yul [g]tso byas sems can rnam[s]
po ta la ru [s]kye bar shog // po ta la ru [s]kye[s] nas kyang // spyan ras gzigs
kyi zhabs krung [drung] du // [s]byin gdag [bdag] mkhor [’khor] byas [bcas] [s]kye bar shog // kra shis
“Homage. Om swasti! This metal statue made of copper (?) was commissioned on the request of the patroness named Gyan (?) in order to distance from death. The main objective is that all sentient beings may be reborn in Potala. Once born in Potala, may the patroness along with her retinue take birth before Avalokiteśvara! Good fortune!”
Seated in vajraparyaṅka on a square throne base supported by four peacocks, the young goddess appears adorned with the ornaments of the saṃbhogakāya. Her right hand is extended with the palm turned outside in varada mudrā. She has extra eyes on her forehead, in the palm of her hands and the sole of her feet designating her as Sītā Tārā. She has large circular ear pendants and her hair is gather in a large bun enclosed in a cloth placed to behind her right shoulder. Her lower garment is decorated with vegetal scrolls inlaid with silver and gold.
The throne has a long Tibetan dedicatory inscription in dBu can script with numerous spelling mistakes:
ནམོ་
༄༅།། ཨོཾ་སུ་ཏི་རང་འཇོན་བྱོའི་ལི་ཀུ་འདི།། ཡོན་ཀྱི་དག་མོ་མིང་གྱན་གྱི་
གྲོགས་གྱི་ཆི་ཐག་སྲིང་ཕྱིར་གཞེངས༎ སྨིགས་ཡུལ་ཙོ་བྱས་སེམས་ཅན་རྣམ༎
པོ་ཏ་ལ་རུ་ཀྱེ་བར་ཤོག ༎ པོ་ཏ་ལ་རུ་ཀྱེས་ནས་ཀྱང་༎ སྤྱན་རས་གཟིགས་
ཀྱི་ཞབས་ཀྲུང་དུ༎ བྱིན་གདག་མ་ཁོར་བྱས་ཀྱེ་བར་ཤོག ༎ བཀྲ་ཤིས༎
Na mo
// om su [swa] ti [sti] rang ’jon byo’i li [s]ku ’di // yon [b]dag mo ming gyan gyi
grogs kyi chi [’chi] thag sring phyir gzhengs [bzhengs] // smigs [dmigs] yul [g]tso byas sems can rnam[s]
po ta la ru [s]kye bar shog // po ta la ru [s]kye[s] nas kyang // spyan ras gzigs
kyi zhabs krung [drung] du // [s]byin gdag [bdag] mkhor [’khor] byas [bcas] [s]kye bar shog // kra shis
“Homage. Om swasti! This metal statue made of copper (?) was commissioned on the request of the patroness named Gyan (?) in order to distance from death. The main objective is that all sentient beings may be reborn in Potala. Once born in Potala, may the patroness along with her retinue take birth before Avalokiteśvara! Good fortune!”