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A seated bronze figure of a Lama, Sino-Tibetan, 18th/19th Century.
A seated bronze figure of a Lama, Sino-Tibetan, 18th/19th Century.
Presumably portraying the Seventh Dalai Lama, Lobzang Kalzang Gyatso. Seated, holding the book in his left hand and the lotus flower in his right hand (part of the attribute missing). Painted by the face. Height 20,5 cm.
Small dent to hat. Wear. Part of one attribut missing.
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The Seventh Dalai Lama (1708-1757) lived during very turbulent political times, with plots and fighting going on among the Tibetans, the Mongolians, and the Chinese for supremacy over the Tibetan government.
In 1720, at age thirteen, he was enthroned in the Potala as the Seventh Dalai Lama. During his reign he gave public teachings, wrote many books, and ordered the production of enormous numbers of statues and thangkas that he distributed throughout Tibet.
