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Tsapa Namgyal: The Teacher and Philosopher Nagarjuna   (  )
Artist	Tsapa Namgyal  (fl. 17th century date QS:P,+1650–00–00T00:00:00Z/7 )     Description artist Work period 17th century date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7   Authority file : Q65534612 artist QS:P170,Q65534612
Title	The Teacher and Philosopher Nagarjuna
Description	English: This image was commissioned by a senior monk ("lochen"), and it was made by Tsapa Namgyal, whom the inscription may characterize as an assistant sculptor. The artist is otherwise unknown, nor do we know who the donor was. Several Nagarjunas are familiar in the Indo-Tibetan tradition, the earliest and the most important being the one who flourished in India in the second century. He is regarded as the chief proponent of the Madhyamika school of Buddhist philosophy and the virtual founder of Mahayana Buddhism. However, at least two other major figures of Vajrayana Buddhism, who lived successively in the 10th and 11th centuries, are also known as Nagarjuna. The 11th-century Nagarjuna was an important mahasiddha (see Dowman 1985, pp. 112-22). Both the philosopher and the tantric teacher are given the same iconographic features.
Date	17th century date QS:P571,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7
Medium	mercury-gilded bronze with pigments
Dimensions	22.5 cm (8.8 in)
Collection	Walters Art Museum    Native name Walters Art Museum Location Baltimore, United States of America Coordinates 39° 17′ 48″ N, 76° 36′ 58″ W   Established 1934  Website thewalters.org Authority file : Q210081 VIAF: 128918374 ISNI: 000000040373611X ULAN: 500279110 LCCN: no00096900 GND: 16029354-6 WorldCat institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number	54.3008
Place of creation	Tibet
Object history	John and Berthe Ford, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown] 2002: given to Walters Art Museum
Exhibition history	Desire and Devotion: Art from India, Nepal, and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara; Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque. 2001-2003.
Credit line	gift of John and Berthe Ford, 2002
Source	Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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