ABS 358
Code: ABS 358
Country: Tibet
Style:
Date: 1600 - 1700
Dimensions in cm WxHxD: 15.6 x 25 x 11.7
Materials: Bronze
Gampopa (1079-1153)
Gampopa Sönam Rinchen is clad in the triple monastic robe and wears the characteristic headdress of the Kagyu lineage. He is seated in meditation posture on two superimposed rectangular cushions. He performs the gesture of touching the earth while his left hand rests in his lap.
Gampopa, also known as Dagpo Lhaje ('physician from Dagpo'), was born into a family of physicians. After the tragic deaths of his wife and his son, he became a monk in the lineage of the Kadam, and later became a disciple of Milarepa. He received the epithet 'Gampopa' after he founded Daklha Gampo Monastery. He was instrumental in the institutionalisation of the Kagyü lineage.
On the back of the base, an inscription identifies him as "Sönam Rinchen, Master of Kadam and Mahamudra". This is to express the fact that he synthesised the Kadam tradition of Atisha and the Kagyü tradition of Milarepa.
Gampopa Sönam Rinchen is clad in the triple monastic robe and wears the characteristic headdress of the Kagyu lineage. He is seated in meditation posture on two superimposed rectangular cushions. He performs the gesture of touching the earth while his left hand rests in his lap.
Gampopa, also known as Dagpo Lhaje ('physician from Dagpo'), was born into a family of physicians. After the tragic deaths of his wife and his son, he became a monk in the lineage of the Kadam, and later became a disciple of Milarepa. He received the epithet 'Gampopa' after he founded Daklha Gampo Monastery. He was instrumental in the institutionalisation of the Kagyü lineage.
On the back of the base, an inscription identifies him as "Sönam Rinchen, Master of Kadam and Mahamudra". This is to express the fact that he synthesised the Kadam tradition of Atisha and the Kagyü tradition of Milarepa.