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| Keywords: Tsapa Namgyal - The Teacher and Philosopher Nagarjuna - Walters 543008.jpg 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 century 17 mercury-gilded bronze with pigments cm 22 54 accession number 54 3008 29013 John and Berthe Ford Baltimore date and mode of acquisition unknown Walters Art Museum John Berthe Ford 2002 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 place of origin Tibet Walters Art Museum license Tibetan art in the Walters Art Museum Tsapa Namgyal Nagarjuna 17th-century bronze statues Bronze statues of Tibet | ||||
