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BUDDHA AKSHABHYA (Item No. Statue A01)
Price including postage: £245 (UK) £270 (World)
Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 45 - 150 years approx
Height: 205mm approx
A gilded and painted bronze statue.
STANDING TARA (Item No. Statue A11)
Price including postage: £295 (UK)
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Postage outside of the UK will be done at cost.)
Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 20 - 40 years approx
Height: 780mm approx
A large standing brass statue.
WHITE TARA (Item No. Statue A12)
Price including postage: £245 (UK) £270 (World)
Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 5 - 10 years approx
Height: 228mm approx
A gilded and painted bronze statue.
LARGE CLOISONNÉ WHITE TARA (Item No. Statue A14)
Price including postage: £995 (UK)
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Postage outside of the UK will be done at cost.)
Origin: China or Tibet
Age: 5 -10 years approx
Height: 580mm approx
Width: 350mm approx
An impressive, very beautiful, large and very heavy statue of White Tara with cloisonné decoration.
RAHULA (Item No. Statue A15)
Price including postage: £495 (UK)
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Origin: China or Tibet
Age: 5 - 10 years approx
Height: 318mm approx
Width: 265mm approx
An impossing large statue of the most wrathful of protectors.
Rahula is fiercely wrathful with his nine heads arising from an oceam of blood on his great snakes tail. Each of his faces has three large eyes and a gaping mouth with exposed fangs. On his stomach is the large face which devoured the nine planets of our solar system. His body is covered with numerous eyes indicating that he is protecting the sacred teachings in all ten directions.
The draws a mighty bow and arrow while holding aloft a scepter and a snake lasso for binding neurosis. His lower body is that of a coiled naga serpent arising from an ocean of blood, symbolizing the release of worldly attachments. Flames and smoke surround him in a halo, symbolising the incineration of all the miseries of the world.
This is a very powerful and rare statue and would be a wonderful addition to any altar or shrine room.
DAKINI (PROBABLY VAJRAYOGINI) (Item No. Statue A16)
Price including postage: £625 (UK)
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Postage outside of the UK will be done at cost.)
Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 50 - 200 years approx
Height: 420mm approx
Width: 240mm approx
A tall, old solid bronze statue of a dakini - the enlighted aspect of the feminine - probably VajraYogini.
This statue - the size and weight of a small child - is an oustanding powerful example and is suitable for a large shrine room or a domestic house as a ritual object or a wonderful piece of artShe is naked except for human-bone dancers ornaments, and she holds a flaying knife and a human skull bowl and there is a ring in the crook of her arm which looks like it originally held a tantric khatvanga staff, now missing (making me think she is Vajradakini) There has never been a flame nimbus around her.
The statue is in good condition and is a splendid large example of her.
VERY LARGE GARUDA (Item No. Statue A17)
Price including postage: £1200 (UK)
(Postage to the rest of the world is possible, but with its weight of around 15 kilos (34 pounds)
postage costs will be high. Postage outside of the UK will be done at cost.)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 70 - 200 years approx
Height: 590mm approx
Wing Span: 880mm approx
An impressive, old, very large and very heavy, solid bronze statue of a garuda.
Garudas are an important aspect of Asian cosmology, right from the south of South East Asia and up into Siberia, where some shamans work with garuda birds spirits which are very much like Native American Thunderbirds.
Garuda represent the air element in Tibetan Buddhism and are said to be have a wingspan of several miles. They never land and are powerful protector beings especially being the enermy of Nagas - the water spirits snakes of Asian cosmology.
This heavy bronze statue - the size of a small child - is an oustanding powerful example and is suitable for a large shrine room or a domestic house as a ritual object or a wonderful piece of art.
CHITIPATI LORD OF THE CHARNEL GROUND (Item No. Statue A18)
Price including postage: £165 (UK) £180 (World)
Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 45 - 150 years approx
Height: 172mm approx
A bronze statue of the lord of the graveyard Chitipati. In the form of a skeleton, and often shown as a pair of male and female skeltons in sexual union, Chitipati is a special guardian spirit, especially associated as a protection against theft.