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| Keywords: Nepalese - A Tantric Yogin - Walters 543032.jpg This figure represents a Yogin wearing his yogic band over his left shoulder Like a divinity he sits on a lotus in the heroic virusana posture In his lap he holds a skull cup revealing his role as a tantric teacher This posture and iconography is common to Pala sculpture of the 11th and 12th centuries It is likely that this figure represents a mahasiddha a tantric teacher revered for having achieved siddhi or perfections A group of eighty-four mahasiddhas was revered by both Hindus and Buddhists Two of them Matsyendranatha and Gorakhnatha became the foci of cults in Nepal This figure was likely part of a 12th-century altar devoted to one of these mahasiddhas It evidently was revered for quite some time as the rubbing associated with devotional practice has rendered its surface features quite muted century 12 copper alloy cm 10 5 8 9 7 6 accession number 54 3032 37055 Gantan Shaka Kathmandu Nepal John and Berthe Ford Baltimore Winter 1974 by purchase Walters Art Museum John Berthe Ford 2007 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 Nepal Walters Art Museum license Nepalese art in the Walters Art Museum Metalwork of Nepal Bronze of Nepal Yogin | ||||
