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PARCEL GILT SILVER GURU PUJA MANDALA The act of offering wealth to the universe is the highest ritual
TIBET, 19TH CENTURY expression of devotion in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. The
Himalayan Art Resources item no.61572 practitioners create a ‘grain mandala’ of thirty-seven heaps of saffron-
6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm) diameter colored rice upon this circular base.
Published
$15,000 - 20,000
Robert A.F. Thurman & David Weldon, Sacred Symbols: The Ritual Art
of Tibet, New York, 1999, no.15.
西藏 十九世紀 銀質鏨花曼陀羅
Exhibited
This fine and intricate altarpiece depicts the human realm (‘Jambu Sacred Symbols: The Ritual Art of Tibet, New York, 24 March - 3 April
Dvipa’) as it is arranged according to the Tibetan Buddhist worldview 1999.
into four continents and eight subcontinents surrounding Mount Meru,
its axis mundi. The ‘four wealths’ - jewels, wish-granting trees, wish Provenance
granting cows, and abundant harvests are symbolized in parcel gilding Private European Collection
between the continents.
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