A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s2.6
A History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, from the Earliest Times to the Present Day c13.s2.6
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A good example of such a traditional portrait is the seated image of the 'Dalai Lama of the Third Rebirth’, also known as the ‘Apostle of the Mongols’, whom he converted to Buddhism in the sixteenth century (1543-89). The original is in the large collection formed by Prince E. Ukhtomskij, now in the Museum of H.I.M. Alexander III, St. Petersburg, which has been carefully catalogued by Professor Grünwedel, to whom I am indebted for the photograph of the Apostle reproduced in Fig. 144.¹ The presentment is thoroughly realistic, and possibly may be from the life. No criterion seems to exist by which the age of such images can be determined.