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Béla KELÉNYI: Biographical Details from the Year of the Fire-Monkey

NOTES 1 For Imre Patkó's life see Almási, Tibor: Egy ember, egy gyűjtemény [One Man, One Collection]. Győr, 1998. Patkó, Imre — Rév, Miklós: Tibet. Budapest, 1957 3 Ibid. See the coloured diagram after p. 116 and black-and-white photographs nos. 198, 208 (^published as a mirror image) and 209. For the series published so far see first and foremost Tucci, G.: Tibetan Painted Scrolls. Rome, 1949, pp. 417-436; see also Olson, E.: Catalogue of the Tibetan Collection and Other Lamaist Articles. The Newark Museum. Vol. III. Newark (NJ), 1971, p. 67f, Pis. 50, 50a. (On the same series see Reynolds, V. — Heller, A. Gyatso, J.: Tibetan Collection. Catalogue of the Newark Museum. Vol. III. Newark (NJ), 1986, p. 167ff); Béguin, G.: Tibet, art et méditation. Paris, 1991, p. 85 5 See Tucci, op. cit., figs. 106-120. (The contours of the woodcut impression can be seen on the reverse side of the Rév thangkha.) 6 Tucci, op. cit., 417. For Pholhaneh's woodcut orders see also Jackson, D.: A History of Tibetan Painting. Wien, 1966, p. 375. For Pholhaneh see Shakabpa, Ts. W. D.; Tibet, a Political History. New Haven, 1884, p. 147 7 Tucci, op. cit., 418 See Gerasimova, K. M.: "Compositional Structure in Tibetan Iconography". In; The Tibet Journal, 1978, Vol. Ill, No.l, pp. 47-49; Jackson, D. — Jackson, A. J.: Tibetan Thangka Painting. Methods & Materials. New York, 1984, p. 26 9 Its warp threads are natural silk and blue silk, its weft is green and yellow (formerly red) silk and gilded paper strips; the base weft is natural silk. The author would like to thank the textile restorer Katalin E. Nagy for her examination of the material. 10 mKhas grub dge legs dpal bzang: rje btsun bla ma Tsong kha pa chen po 'i ngo mtshar rmad du byung ba 7 mam par thar pa dad pa ' jug ngogs. Xining, 1982 11 rje thams cad mkyen pa Tsong kha pa chen po 'i mam thar go sla bar brjod pa bde legs kun gyi 'byunggnas. In: Kaschewsky, R.: Das Leben des lamaistischen heiligen Tsongkhapa Blobzang-grags-pa (1357-1419). Vol 2. Wiesbaden, 1971. Also of assistance were two general-type works: A Short Biography and Letter of Je Tsong-K'a-pa. Dharamsala, 1975; and Thurman, R.: Life & Teaching of Tsongkhapa. Dharamsala, 1982. 'Jam dbyangs bshad pa'i rdo rje: rje btsun Tsong kha pa chen po 7 mam thar ras bris kyi tshul brgyad gsum pa. Collected Works of 'Jamdbyangs-bzhad-pa'i rdo-rje. New Delhi, 1973, Vol. 4, pp. 142-168. I should like thank József Végh, librarian of the Gate of Dharma Buddhist College, for bringing this text to my knowledge. 13 For this see Kaschewsky: op. cit., 11. 4v6-5r2 14 Thurman writes (incorrectly) that Demchog Maitri lama initiated Tsongkhapa into the thirtecn-deity Yamantaka system. Thurman: op. cit., p. 8. 1 For pictures of the wood prints see Jackson: op. cit., p. 375 1 Rhy, M. M. - Thurman, R. A. F.: Wisdom and Transformation. New York, 1999, p. 355 17 Rhy and Thurman compare the scroll with the Eastern Tibetan scrolls in the famous Milarepa series kept at the Ethnographical Museum in Stockholm. These, however, represent another, more abstract, style, with regard to both colours and forms. Ibid., p. 355 18 Pal does not at all indicate that the scroll is the fifth on the left in the series also analysed here. Pal, P.: Tibet. Tradition and Change. Albuquerque, 1997, p. 54f 19 Béguin, op. cit., p. 30. For the same piece see: Tibetica 24 Verkaufsausstellung ab 18. Juli 1973 im Hause Schoettle-Ostasiatica Stuttgart. No. 8009.