Early Matters : Essays on the History of Buddhist Art in Zangskar, Western Himalaya Gold Plated Vajrasattva Statue With Silver Filigree and Turquoise Inlays The statue's serene expression and

The statue's serene expression and meditative posture serve as a reminder of the Buddha's teachings and the path to spiritual awakening

Resting upon a lotus pedestal

This is a Green Tara thangka

founded the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism

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Early Matters : Essays on the History of Buddhist Art in Zangskar, Western Himalaya Gold Plated Vajrasattva Statue With Silver Filigree and Turquoise Inlays The statue's serene expression andAuthor : Rob Linrothe Publisher: Studio Orientalia Binding: Hardback Pages: 505 ISBN 13: 9788196871567 This book is focused on the art in the remote valleys of Zangskar, a region of the union territory of Ladakh in northern India. It proposes that, first, the people and institutions in Zangskar produced a treasury of understudied Buddhist art in the form of architecture, sculpture, and painting and that, second, examination of this corpus models the