Tibetan

Religious and political ties between China and Tibet began under Emperor Yongle (1403-1424) who invited the first Tibetan Lama to the Ming court and thus started an interchange that continued into the Qing Dynasty of artistic ideas, styles, representations, and iconography between China and Tibet.

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  • Sale! Antique Portable Study/Prayer Table, Tibet #7020HOL

    Antique Portable Study/Prayer Table, Tibet #7020HOL

    Original price was: $595.00.Current price is: $525.00.
    Ht: 13.75” W: 26.25” D: 13.125” | FOR SHIPPING INFORMATION CAL 213-568-3030 OR EMAIL [email protected]

    One of a pair of antique low tables on 3 folding bamboo-shaped leg supports, this traveling prayer/study table was designed for Tibetan monks or nomadic families to lay out sutras (scriptures), scrolls, books and other study materials and by Tibetan devotees as a personal altar/prayer table. It is simply decorated with painted florals on vines and a fruit offering bowl symbolizing the flowering of enlightenment and opening of the heart.

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  • Antique Repoussé Earth Witnessing Buddha, Tibetan (0001LEM) $595

    Antique Repoussé Earth Witnessing Buddha, Tibetan (0001LEM) $595

    $595.00

    This Tibetan Repoussé image presents various symbols of the Enlightenment of the Shakyamuni-Buddha. He sits within a trefoil arch on a lotus base  (padmapitha) under the bodhi tree in bhumisparsha mudra (earth witnessing or hand touching position) symbolizing the moment of his enlightenment legs bent in (padmasana). The detailed trefoil arch surrounding the Buddha’s head…

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