Himalayan Art Resources

Item: Teacher (Lama) - Sakya Pandita Kunga Gyaltsen

བླ་མ། 喇嘛
(item no. 32720)
Origin Location Tibet
Date Range 1400 - 1499
Lineages Sakya, Ngor (Sakya) and Buddhist
Material Metal, Mercuric Gild
Collection Private
Notes about the Central Figure

Classification: Person

Appearance: Monastic

Gender: Male

TBRC: bdr:P1056

Interpretation / Description

Ngorchen Kunga Zangpo (See HAR #12576 for additional images).

གཅིག་ཏུ་གཞན་དོན་ལ་དགའ་བ།

རྒྱལ་སྲས་མཚན་དཔེའི་དཔལ་གྱིས་མཛེས།

པཎ་ཆེན་བཟང་པོའི་ཞབས་ལ་འདུད།

རྒྱལ་ཚབ་ཀུན་དགའ་དབང་ཕྱུག་པའི།

ཐུག་དགོངས་རྫོགས་ཕྱིར་

'Always serving the benefit of others, The spiritual heir beautifully adorned with the major and minor marks, To the feet of Pandita Zangpo, I bow; In order to fulfill all aspirations, by the regent Kunga Wangchug.'

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