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Casting the Divine: Sculptures of the Nyingjei Lam Collection, Rubin Museum of Art, New York (2 March 2012–11 February 2013)
Arte Buddhista Tibetana: Dei e Demoni dell' Himalaya, Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin (June–September 2004)
The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet: Buddhist Art in the Nyingjei Lam Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (6 October–30 December 1999)
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F. Ricca, Arte Buddhista Tibetana: Dei e Demoni dell' Himalaya (Turin: Mondadori Electa, 2004), fig. IV.5
J. Watt, Himalayan Art Resources (himalayanart.org), no. 68406
D. Weldon and J. Casey Singer, The Sculptural Heritage of Tibet: Buddhist Art in the Nyingjei Lam Collection (London: Laurence King Pub, 1999), p. 19
This image likely depicts Sadakshari Lokeshvara, the four-armed variant of Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara. Seated in lalitasana, the posture of royal ease, on a double lotus platform, he sits surrounded by a flaming mandorla that is topped by a parasol. His proper right hand is lowered in varadamudra, while his left holds the stem of a lotus flower that blossoms over his shoulder. His rear hands are raised to his shoulders. He wears a short dhoti with a patterned scarf draped across his chest. His hair is piled into a jatamakuta centred by a dimunitive figure of the Buddha Amitabha seated in meditation.
