A FINE AND RARE THANGKA OF THE ARHAT CHUDAPANTAKA, East Tibet, Khenri tradition, 19th ct. This depiction of Chudapantaka deviates from the usual iconograph. Here he is holding a sceptre in his right hand and his left hand is raised for the teaching gesture, with a cinnabar-red, semi-open gate with golden fittings in the background, from which a youthful dweller peeks out. The precious golden lion-head fittings on both doors could be hinting at the fact that it could be the gate to a monastery. A dignitary is kneeling in the foreground, tending to couple of peacocks. - Publ. Tibetica 30, D. I. Lauf; Schoettle Ostasiatica, Stuttgart; Exhibition catalogue 7. Mai 1975:8878 - Cf. Rob Linrothe, Chinese Connections in Tibetan Arhat Painting; Marylin M. Rhie/Robert A. F. Thurman, Worlds of Transformation; Tibet House, New York, 1999:24, p. 181 - Rubin Museum of Art, Serindia Publications, Chicago, 2004:19, Appendix: 9 - www: himalayanart.org; Himalayan Art Resources, item No. 243 - Framed under glass