WESTERN TIBET, 12TH CENTURY

Stylistically, western Tibetan sculpture was greatly influenced by Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh and northern and northeastern India. Bronzes from the vital early years of the Second Transmission of Buddhism to Western Tibet in the late 10th and early 11th century under King Yeshe, the translator Rinchen Sangpo, and the Indian sage Atisha, are extremely rare. For a closely related example see U. von Schroeder, Indo-Tibetan Bronzes, 1981, pp.176-177, fig.32D.