Sangpo Bumtri - einer der vier Transzendenten Hüter der Bön-Tradition - photo 1
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Sangpo Bumtri - einer der vier Transzendenten Hüter der Bön-Tradition

Lot 609
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Lot 609 | Sangpo Bumtri - einer der vier Transzendenten Hüter der Bön-Tradition
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€ 900 – 1 500
A RARE BON THANGKA OF SANGPO BUMTRI - Nepal/ Dolpo, 18th/ 19th c. - "Bon is considered Tibet's oldest spiritual tradition and, as the original source of Tibetan culture, played a significant role in shaping Tibet's unique identity." (Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama from his foreword in Wonders of the Natural Mind by Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, 2000)" The Bon tradition is usually located in the kingdom of Zhang Zhung surrounding Mount Kailash, which existed around Mount Kailash and in the region west of Tibet until the reign of Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo in the seventh century. Many deities, especially from the Nyingma School tradition, find counterparts in the Bon pantheon. Sangpo Bumtri is referred to as the "Creator God of Bon". Together with Satrik Ersang (Sherab Chamma), Tonpa Shenrab and Shenlha Ö dkar, he is one of the four transcendent guardians. It is said that he has "neither eyes to see, nor hands to hold, nor ears to hear, nor nose to smell, he has only his mind". He has a silver-white body. Sangpo Bumtri ́s body rests on a sun-moon lotus, on an altar-like throne with strongly sweeping volutes above his body. His head is adorned with a fivefold crown. He is adorned with jewellery and wears silk robes. According to the Buddhist trikaya doctrine, he is in the jewelled body of the Samboghkaya. The right of his hands holds a tri-coloured umbrella on a long staff, as a kind of victory banner, the left lies meditatively in his lap. The deity is flanked by two attendants in white and blue. Both show the gesture of teaching. Sangpo Bumtri is surrounded by mythological animals. Above his sinuous throne ornament appears Garuda, the lord of the feathered animals, to the left and right below a brown-coloured sea monster - Makara, below a male and a female lucky dragon, holding pearls in their claws, and underneath to the left and right of the throne lie white snow lions, each with a hand-folded human being crouching in front of its mouth. Emanations of the deity, alternating in the colours white, blue, yellow, red and green, frame the central deity, the sequence of coloured emanations creating a diagonal structure across the entire picture. At the very bottom in the centre, below a red-coloured deity (Tönpa Shenrap?), appears a powerful protector of the Bon religion, the "conqueror of all enemies" - Welsé Ngampa (yab-yum). He wears nine heads, partly animal heads, and has eighteen arms and two legs with which he stands on two hinder spirits above a sun lotus. In his front hands the deity holds a ritual dagger. In the niches of his throne are two white-feathered garudas. Tempera on cotton fabric, original trapezoidal frame at the narrow edges; reverse: multi-line inscription in black ink; (mostly mantras, not translatable). - From an important private collection in northern Germany, collected mainly in India from the early 1950s to the 1980s - Cf: Per Kvaerne, The Bon Religion of Tibet - The Iconography of a Living Tradition; London, 1995: 26, Pl. 5 D. I. Lauf, Tibetica 3, Schoettle Ostasiatica, 1969, Pl 50; 1979, An Iconography of Tibetan Buddhism Pl. 87 Andreas Lommel, Art of Buddhism; 1974: Pl. 131 - Wear, damages due to age
88 x 68 (130 x 71) cm
"Bön gilt als Tibets älteste spirituelle Tradition und spielte als die ursprüngliche Quelle der tibetischen Kultur eine bedeutende Rolle bei der Prägung von Tibets einzigartiger Identität.“ (Tenzin Gyatso, der 14. Dalai Lama aus seinem Vorwort in "Wonders of the Natural Mind" von Geshe Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, 2000)„ Die Bön-Tradition wird für gewöhnlich bei dem Königreich Zhang Zhung verortet das den Heiligen Berg Kailash umgab, das bis zur Regentschaft des tibetischen Königs Songtsen Gampo im siebten Jahrhundert, rund um den Berg Kailash, und in der Region westlich von Tibet bestand. Viele Gottheiten, besonders aus der Tradition der Nyingma Schule finden Entsprechungen im Bön-Pantheon. Sangpo Bumtri wird als der „Schöpfergott der Bön“ bezeichnet. Zusammen mit Satrik Ersang (Sherab Chamma), Tonpa Shenrab und Shenlha Ö dkar ist er einer der vier transzendenten Hüter. Es heisst er habe „weder Augen zum Sehen, noch Hände zum Halten, noch Ohren zum Hören, noch Nase zum Riechen, er habe nur seinen Geist“. Er besitzt einen silberweißen Körper. Sangpo Bumtri ́s Körper ruht auf einem Sonne-Mond-Lotos, auf einem altarähnlichen Thron mit stark ausschwingenden Voluten über seinem Körper. Sein Haupt ziert eine fünffache Krone. Er ist mit Schmuck angetan und trägt seidene Kleider. Nach der buddhistischen Trikaya-Lehre befindet er sich im Schmuckkörper des Samboghkaya. Die rechte seiner Hände hält auf einem langen Stab einen dreifarbigen Schirm, als eine Art Siegesbanner, die linke liegt meditativ im Schoß. Flankiert wird die Gottheit von zwei Begleitern in weißer und blauer Farbe. Beide zeigen die Geste des Lehrens. Umgeben wird Sangpo Bumtri von mythologischen Tieren. Über seinem gewundenen Thronschmuck erscheint Garuda, der Herr der gefiederten Tiere, links und rechts darunter ein braunfarbenes Meerungeheuer - Makara, darunter ein männlicher und ein weiblicher Glücksdrachen, Perlen in ihren Klauen haltend, und zu unterst links und rechts neben dem Thron liegen weiße Schneelöwen vor deren Maul je ein händefaltendes Menschenwesen kauert. Emanationen der Gottheit, alternierend in den Farben Weiß, Blau, Gelb, Rot und Grün umrahmen die zentrale Gottheit, wobei die Reihung der farbigen Emanationen eine diagonal verlaufende Struktur über das ganze Bild ergeben. Ganz unten in der Mitte, unterhalb einer rotfarbenen Gottheit (Tönpa Shenrap?), erscheint ein kraftvoller Schützer der Bön-Religion, der „Überwinder aller Feinde“ - Welsé Ngampa (yab-yum). Er trägt neun Häupter, teils Tierköpfe, und hat achtzehn Arme und zwei Beine mit denen er auf zwei Hindergeistern über einem Sonnenlotos steht. In seinen vorderen Händen hält die Gottheit einen Ritualdolch. In den Nischen seines Throns befinden sich zwei weißgefiederte Garudas. Tempera auf Baumwollgewebe, originale trapezförmige Fassung an den Schmalkanten; Rückseite: Mehrzeilige Inschrift in schwarzer Tusche; (meist Mantras, nicht übersetzbar).
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