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Mahasiddha Virupa "Silver Eyes"

Nice extrem rare statue of Virupa.

Mahāsiddha Virūpa, the Lord of all yogis, was born in a royal family in east India during the 7th-8th century CE.
He later renounced the life of a prince to become a monastic. He took ordination from the abbot Vinayadeva and the teacher Jayakirti at the temple of Somapuri in India.

He built a small stone temple filled with representations of the Triple Gem, which purified the obscurations of his parents.
Virūpa is one of the Eighty- Four Mahasiddha in Indian， who was an important teacher in Sa sKya School in Tibetan Buddhism.

The image wears bejeweled ornaments， namely flower-shaped crowns in front of the knots of hair， pairs of circle earrings， necklace with beaded strands of pearls attached， bracelets on the upper arms and all four wrists， ornaments on the legs， and ankles. He is seated in the seated in the attitude of royal ease （rājalīlāsana） on the skin of an antelope placed on a lotus pedestal. With the left hand he points to the sun,  presenting the scene of Milarepa’s arrestting the sun in its course when he was pledging with a barmaid.

Figure of this copper statue is flexible, ndicating high-level aesthetic perceptions.
It is in good preservation, with the bottom cover saved.
This statue should be a hight quality work.

 

Provenience:

Old Pan Asia collection