3Worlds - The Shamanism Website

SOME OF THE OBJECTS THAT HAVE ALREADY SOLD ON THIS SITE

This page is here simply because the objects are beautiful and also to show the types of objects the gallery sells from time to time.

SIBERIAN SHAMAN'S MIRROR (Item No. Toli 001)
Origin: Manchuria, China or Siberia
Age: 2000 - 1500 years approx
Diameter: 96mm (3.75 inches) approx
Price: £180 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD

This nice, large and very ancient toli (Shaman's Mirror) is around 2000 years and is one of the most prized mirrors due to its age.

Its condition is fairly good, with some corrosion but still quite a trace of its ancient polished surface.

SIBERIAN SHAMAN'S MIRROR (Item No. Toli 002)
Origin: Southern Siberian or Mongolia
Age: 800 - 300 years approx
Diameter: 128mm (5 inches) approx
Price: £165 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD

An ancient plain, undecorated shaman's mirror. In good condition with age patina and some corrosion. It shows traces of it's original polished surface. The mirror is a little thinner than many other mirros, so it has less weight and would be easy to wear despite its quite large size.

This mirror was recently re-discovered in Mongolia where it had been buried with other shamanic artifacts in the 1920's to hide it from the communists who were heavily persecuting the shamans of the region during this time.

It is decorated with a parts of a cloth offering scarf and cord which probably date back to when it was buried.

LARGE CLOISONNE BRONZE GREEN TARA
Origin: Tibet or Western China
Age: 220 - 180 years approx
Height: 540mm (21.6 inches) approx
Width: 520mm (20.8 inches) approx
Depth: 350mm (14 inches) approx
Price: £625 (including postage in UK) (Postage to places outside of the Uk at cost) - SOLD

A stunningly beautiful, large, very rare original 19th century cloisonne statue of the ever popular Tibetan Buddhist Goddess Green Tara The Statue is very finally made and would have been originally have been housed in a monastery or a noble or even possibly royal families palace, as such a fine statue would have been a very valuable item, taking a long time to make.

Green Tara is shown as a 16 year old girl in the power of young womanhood, seated in her normal posture with her left leg extended in the act of standing up to rush to the aid of all who call upon her.

Green Tara herself, and this statue radiate peace and beauty, and the size combined with the cloisonne floral decoration on this statue make it a unique item.

A truly beautiful historic sacred object that would sit well on a domestic or shrine room altar or it could simply be bought as a spectacular work of sacred art.

KAPALA AND STAND - RITUAL TIBETAN BUDDHIST SKULL OFFERING CUP (Item No. kapala 001)
Origin: Tibet (Sanskrit: Kapala Tib: thod-pa)
Age: late 250 - 100 years approx
Height: 108mm (4.25 inches) approx
Price: £78 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD

A traditional representation of a skull offering bowl. Some Kapala are made from human skull whereas some, like this one are made entirely of metal.

The Kapala is in three parts, each beautifully made and in good condition. The base is the traditional flaming triangle shape symbolising both fire and transformation. In its three corners are a fresh cut, and a rotting human head and a skull representing the three poisons of Buddhist teachings as well as the three times (past present and future) the three worlds (lower middle and upper) and other symbolism/

On top of this is the skull bowl itself and this is then sealed by the lid embossed with flowing waves and ripples representing an ocean of blood. On the top is a dorje (stylised eagle claw) handle.

kapalas are used in tantric ritual as vessels for transforming base material offerings into sacred nectar. They are also used to make offerings of blood and semen (wine and milk being generally substituted) to Buddhist protector beings where one Kapala is used for each, and associated with wrathful beings such as Mahakala and the Dakinis (enlightened manifestations of female energy) such as Vajrayogini.

RITUAL TIBETAN BUDDHIST LONG LIFE VASE (Item No. Vase 001)
Origin: Tibet (Sanskrit: Jinvana-kalasha Tib: Tshe-bum)
Age: 40 - 20 years approx
Height: 170mm (6.7 inches) approx
Price: £88 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD

Beautiful gild and silver long life vase which is used in Tibetan longevity rituals associated with either Amitayus. White Tara or Ushnivijaya, the Tibetan Buddhist beings associated with long life practice. The shamanic tantric Buddha Padmasambhava (Guru Rinpoche) is also generally shown holding a long life vase in a skull cup (Kapala)

During the rituals the vase is symbolically filled to the top with the nectar of immortality which can either be empowered water or barley beer Tib: Chang).

The stopped at the top of the vase is separate and has a small representation of Amitayus holding a long life vase.

The vase is in very good condition, being fairly recently made (less than twenty years) and is a beautiful. It is gilt and silver and set with faux red coral and turquoise. A very special object for your altar.

COPPER OR BRONZE PHURBA - RITUAL TIBETAN BUDDHIST OR SHAMANS DAGGER (Item No. phurba 003)
Origin: Tibet
Age: late 250 - 100 years approx
Length: 450mm (17.75 inches) approx
Price: £235 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD

A Beautifully cast, very splendid example of a large, heavy, solid, high grade ceremonial Tibetan bronze or copper ritual dagger. The detail on it is crisp and very well executed. The phurba is in excellent condition.

Phurbas are made of a variety of materials, such as wood, iron, silver and copper, and used by Buddhist lamas and shamans throughout Nepal and Tibet for healing, protection against harm and the killing of demons - both internal and external ones. A very powerful and unique ritual item.

This phurba has a vajra (dorje) centre part with beautifully cast eagle claws and a horses head on the top representing Hayagriva, a Tibetan wrathful spirit, also known as 'Horse Neck', who's scream is said to shatter the illusions we have about reality and dissolve all the worlds together.

For more information about phurbas read the article about them on the articles page of this website.

PAINTED GOURD RATTLE
Origin: Native American - Hopi
Age: 100 - 80 years approx
Length: 255mm (10 inches approx)
Price: £95 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD

An beautiful and unique older painted Hopi gourd Katchina dancers rattle. The rattle is painted in a earth colours with the same design on both sides. The rattle is probably around 70 to 90 years old and is not a tourist piece. It is in good condition with no damage other than age wear and would make an excellent medicine rattle.

For more information about rattles please read the articles about them on the articles page of this website.

PAINTED GOURD RATTLE
Origin: Native American - Hopi
Age: 30 - 20 years approx
Diameter: 105mm (4.25 inches approx)
length (not including string): 210mm (8.3 inches approx)
Price: £68 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD

A painted Hopi gourd Katchina dancers rattle. The rattle is painted with the same design on both sides, the one side having a yellow back ground and the other side pale blue. The rattle is probably around 15 to 30 years old and is not a tourist piece. It is in good condition with no damage other than age wear and would make an excellent medicine rattle.

For more information about rattles please read the articles about them on the articles page of this website.

TIBETAN BUDDHIST DRILBU AND DORJE (BELL AND THUNDERBOLT) SET
(Sanskrit: Ghanta and Vajra - Tibetan: Drilbu and Dorje)
Origin: Mongolia
Age: 300 - 100 years approx
Bell Height:140mm (5.5 inches approx)
Bell Diameter: 73mm (2.9 inches approx)
Dorje Length: 92mm (3.7 inches approx)
Price: £178 (including postage Worldwide) - SOLD

A very old, finely cast, matching Drilbu and Dorje set. This Tibetan Buddhist ritual set from Mongolia is quite delightful. Both parts of the set are very well cast and it is rare to find an old set that is complete rather than 'a bell from here and a dorje from there'. The tone of the bell is clear with a long sustain, and both the bell and the dorje show the sort wear created by thousands of hours of human hands holding them and using them in ritual practice. If I was being new-age about them I would say the set emanates a sense of love.

A very rare item that would be a delight for anyone who wishes to use them in their practice.

For more information about bells and dorjes please read the article about the ritual objects of Tibetan Tantra on the articles page of this website.

SILVER SEAL - PROTECTON AMULET
Origin: Tibet
Age: 300 - 75 years approx
Height: 36mm (1.4 inches) approx
Price: £35 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD

Small old silver seal with flower pattern. Seals like this are worn as protective charms and amulets more than used as actual seals.

A beautiful small amulet in nice condition, and suitable to be worn or tied to another object.

TANTRIC SHAMAN'S OR LAMA'S DAMARU DRUM
Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: late 19th - early 20th Century
Diameter at widest point: 127mm (5 inches approx)
Overall Length: 610mm (24 inches approx)
Price: £80 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD

Tibetan double sided 'damaru' drum, used in tantric rituals by lamas and shamans. Sometimes made from the tops of two human skulls, this is one is made of wood. Beneath the drum hangs its original brocade tail with the five colours of the Tibetan cosmos (five directions, five elements etc.). The drum is used, but in very good condition, and has a very good sound, and is very playable. The drum also has a brocade case to keep it safe when not in use.

For more information about damaru drums please read the article about the ritual objects of Tibetan Tantra on the articles page of this website.

BUDDHIST SHAMAN'S MIRROR
Origin: Mongolia
Age: 17th -19th Century
Diameter: 53mm (2 inches) approx
Price: £95 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD

This very rare, beautifully decorated melong (Buddhist Mirror) from Mongolia would have been used by a shaman or a lama in healing and other protective rituals. It is made of brass and decorated with the knot of eternity, a symbol found both in Tibetan Buddhism and Mongolian shamanism.

Around the outside of the mirror are the twelve animals of the horoscope and inside of these the Buddhist symbol of the two golden fish which are a symbol of fertility, and also signify fearlessness and happiness, as the fish swim freely through the oceans (of life, death and rebirth) without drowning, enhancing the mirrors protective qualities.

The mirror is in good condition, showing normal wear and evidence of having been being polished during its long life. Their is part of an old silk fabric offering scarf tied to its back.

BRASS TIBETAN PROTECTIVE MELONG AMULET (Item No. Melong Amulet 001)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 100 - 30 years approx
Width: 43mm (1.75 inches) approx
Height: 54mm (2.1 inches) approx
Price: £28 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD

Protection mirror (melong) with an image of Je Tsong Khapa on the front and the wheel of life on the back. Je Tsong Khapa (1357-1419) was the teacher of the first Dalai Lama and founder of the yellow hat wearing Gelugpa sect of which the Dalai Lama is the head.

A beautiful small amulet in nice condition, It has been on my car keyring for almost 20 years but it is time to let it go as I work with the red-hatted Nyingmapa sect not the Yellow hat sects. It is suitable to be worn or tied to another object, and I have put a leather cord on it.

BUDDHIST OR SHAMANS RITUAL ALTAR MIRROR
Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 19th - 20th Century
Height: 118mm (4.6 inches) approx
Price: £65 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD

This free standing melong (Buddhist Mirror) is designed to put on an altar. One of their uses is as a gateway to the three worlds of the shamanic journey, and some Tibetan shamans will undertake their journeys by letting their soul leave their body, and allowing it to pass through such mirrors to enter the other worlds.

SILVER PHURBA - RITUAL TIBETAN BUDDHIST OR SHAMANS DAGGER
Origin: Tibet
Age: 20th Century
Length: 370mm (14.5 inches) approx
Price: £175 (including postage worldwide) SOLD

A Beautifully cast, very splendid example of a large, heavy, solid, high grade Tibetan silver ritual dagger. The detail on it is crisp and very well executed.

For more information about phurbas read the article about them on the articles page of this website.

WOODEN PHURBA - RITUAL SHAMAN'S DAGGER
Origin: Nepal
Age: early - mid 20th Century
Length: 217mm (8.5 inches) approx
Price: £48 (including postage worldwide) SOLD

A very fine example of an old carved Nepalese shaman's wooden ritual dagger. Wooden phurba like this are often decorated with streamers of cloth and this one still has its original dressings attached.

For more information about phurbas read the article about them on the articles page of this website

SHAMAN'S TRIDENT OR TRISUL
Origin: Nepal
Age: mid 20th Century
Length: 202mm (8 inches) approx
Price: £22 (including postage worldwide) SOLD

Nepalese shamans mix their shamanism with both Hindu and Buddhist ideas. In Hinduism, trisuls like this are normally a symbol of Shiva, and in Buddhism they are associated with Pafamsambhava, but in shamanism they represent the three worlds.

Iron trisuls like this are kept on a shamans altar, fixed to the roof of a house, or put onto the top of a flag pole hung with prayer flags and offerings to the spirits.

BUDDHIST MALA PRAYER BEADS
Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 20th Century
Size: Beads 13mm (0.5 inches approx) in diameter
108 bone beads inlaid with turquoise, red coral and copper. Old turquoise disc bead and pink Sherpa coral bead.
Price: £38 (including postage worldwide) SOLD

This mala (tenwa) is made of 108 bone beads (probably yak), each being inset with red coral, turquoise and copper or brass. There are two larger disc shaped beads at the end of the mala, one of natural turquoise, the other being an 18th or 19th century antique 'Sherpa coral' glass bead. The beads are in good condition, and it a very useable mala for shamanic divination or Buddhist practice.

For more information about malas read the article about them on the articles page of this website.

SET OF SEVEN COPPER OFFERING BOWLS
Origin: Mongolia
Age: 19th - 20th Century
Diameter of each bowl: 32mm (1.25 inches) approx
Height: 10mm (.3 inches) approx
Price: £25 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD

A unique set of seven small, handmade matching copper offering bowls from a Mongolian Buddhist altar. Because of their size, they are more then likely part of a travelling altar set. To find a complete, old set of offering bowls is rare in itself, but to find such a uniquely small set is very rare indeed. Beautiful well made, small bowl in good condition with nice patina and a very nice feel to them.

HUMAN SILVER THIGH BONE TRUMPET
(Tibetan: rKang-gling or Kangling)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 20th Century
Lenght: 380mm (15 inches) approx
Price: £178 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD

A ritual trumpet made from high grade Tibetan silver instead of a human thighbone. These sort of rKang-gling are often used in monasteries belonging to the newer schools of Buddhism where human bone objects are less frequently employed in ritual, as they are in the older and more shamanic schools of Buddhism such as the Nyingma.

This is a beautifully crafted, heavy, silver rKang-gling with a good sound. The decoration is very skilfully done, and the rKang-gling is further decorated with inset real turquoise and lapis lazuli.

For more information about rKang-gling read the article about Tibetan tantric objects on the articles page of this website.

SHAMAN'S WOODEN OFFERING SPOON
Origin: Mongolia
Age: early - mid 20th Century
Length: 240mm (8.25 inches) approx
Price: £22 (including postage worldwide) - SOLD

Wooden spoons like this are used to pour offering and to flick milk and other sacred liquids to the spirits of the four directions, the sky and the earth.

The spoon is worn, but in solid, good condition. There is a fragment of faded blue silk offering scarf tied to the bottom of it.