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Tibetan Buddhist Statues

Tibetan Buddhist Medicine Buddha - Made in Nepal

Tibetan Buddhist Lord Buddha in Bhumisparsha Mudra - Made in Nepal

Lord Buddha Wall Hanging Mask (Tibetan Buddhist)

Buddha in Earth Touching Gesture (Tibetan Buddhist)

Tibetan Buddhist Goddess Green Tara Seated on Wooden Pedestal

Tibetan Buddhist Maitreya Buddha - The Only Deity Seated with His Legs Down

Tibetan Buddhist Superfine Singing Bowl - Made in Nepal

Gautam Buddha in Vitark Mudra With Auspicious Symbols on Robe

Tibetan Buddhist Deity Healing Buddha (Medicine Buddha)

Tibetan Buddhist Superfine Large Singing Bowl - Made in Nepal

Tibetan Buddhist Ashtamangala Singing bowl

The Ethereal Green Tara, Her Karnaphool Long Enough To Touch Her Shoulders

Buddha in Vitark Mudra (Tibetan Buddhist Deity)

Avalokiteshvara, The Eleven-headed, The Thousand-armed

Small Buddha in Vitark Mudra - Tibetan Buddhist

Tibetan Buddhist Deity Buddha in Preaching Gesture

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Delving Into The Soul Of Buddhist Sculptures

In Tibet, the pursuit of art is a spiritual endeveaour for both the artist and the patron who commissions a work. Each step of the process of sculpting a deity involves prayer and ritual, often of considerable complexity. This is why Buddhist sculptures are hollow in terms of make - inside them are placed deposits of various grains (symbol of plenty), religious texts in miniscule scrolls, and tsa-tsa (molded clay offerings, an ancient Tibetan Buddhist practice). All of these add to the final liturgical value of the sculpture in question. Most of Tibetan art, from where we handpick the works in this section, draws from the Buddhist faith. Heir to the ancient traditions that arrived from Nepal, Kashmir, and Central Asia, it started with the interiors of monastic sanctuaries and meeting halls. Each of these pieces has the power to fill your space with unmistakable calm and stability.

The variety of media to be discovered in our collection is as vast as Tibetan sculpture offers. There is pise (an endemic medium of compressed earth), clay, wood, stone, and a variety of metals such as brazz, bronze, and copper. Superimposed with traditional design, paint, gold gilding, and gems, these sculptures are one-of-a-kind and flawlessly finished. While endemic wood, as well as the skill required to carve it into the figures you see here, are expensive; stone is marginally employed in these artworks, mostly with the intention of having the sculpture in question consecrated. For centuries now, metal what local sculptors prefer. The larger ones have been done with repousse (strategic hammering and shaping), the smaller ones are examples of the relatively simpler lost-wax technique (molten metal replacing the wax pouring out of a vented clay cocoon). The Tibetan word 'li' denotes all sorts of metals and their alloys, of varying levels of refinement, and blended in non-uniform proportions. This leads to a wide variety of finishes of the same sculpture, which we suggest you zoom in on on the respective product pages.

Note the exquisite gilding on some of our select pieces - the tsang-ser method consists of gold mixed with resin or even honey to be painted on to the surface area with a well-worn brush. In case of paint, the coloured pigments employed are of high value, having been sourced and fashioned with hard work. In most sculptures, the countenance is highlighted, but there are a few in our collection that are completely coated with paint. Lacquered and gilded aside, some Tibetan Buddhist sculptures are inlaid with semiprecious stones, which is an influence of the Nepalese tradition. The soul of a Buddhist sculptures lies in the consecrational deposits placed within the figure.