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TUBULAR GAU SHRINE BOX AMULET (Item No. Gau Amulet 01)

Price: £42 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 10 - 30 years approx
Length: 61mm approx

A gau amulet in the form of a tube with a removeable end. It has the Om Mani Padme Hum mantra on it and loops to suspend it on a cord for wearing arounf the neck. The gau has no contents, so you can add things to it yourself.

MANJUSHRI GAU SHRINE BOX AMULET (Item No. Gau Amulet 02)

Price: £38 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Nepal
Age: 20 - 50 years approx
Width: 38mm approx
Height: 40mm approx
Depth: 17mm approx

A gau in the form of Manjushri. The gau has no contents, so you can add things to it yourself. It is designed to ber worn around the neck as an amulet.

MANJUSHRI GAU SHRINE BOX AMULET (Item No. Gau Amulet 03)

Price: £34 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Nepal
Age: 20 - 50 years approx
Width: 22mm approx
Height (excluding leather bag): 36mm approx
Depth: 17mm approx

A round gau with a double dorje on the front and the Kalachara mantra on the back. It has a small leather pouch attached which will be full of blessings flowers and other contents. The gau has no contents, so you can add things to it yourself. It is designed to ber worn around the neck as an amulet.

MAHAKALA GAU SHRINE BOX AMULET (Item No. Gau Amulet 04)

Price: £39 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Tibet
Age: 30 - 70 years approx
Width: 48mm approx
Height: 53mm approx
Depth: 23mm approx

Lovely old copper and silver gau shrine box, designed to be worn as an amulet on a strap around the neck, or placed on an altar. The gau has a face of the protector being Mahakala on the front and is empty inside.

The gau is in good condition, and is a beautiful sacred object. It is designed to ber worn around the neck as an amulet..

GAU SHRINE BOX AMULET (Item No. Gau Amulet 05)

Price: £39 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Tibet
Age: 30 - 70 years approx
Width: 27mm approx
Height: 34mm approx
Depth: 15mm approx

Old copper and silver gau shrine box, designed to be worn as an amulet on a strap around the neck, or placed on an altar. The gau has the mantra OM on the front and is filled and empowered. It is encased in a leather band and it has two small leather bags filled with blessed herbs and wild flowers attached to its strap.

The gau is in good condition, and is a beautiful sacred object suitable to be worn or placed on an altar.

GAU SHRINE BOX AMULET (Item No. Gau Box 01)

Price: £19 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Nepal
Age: 5 - 20 years approx
Width: 42mm approx
Height: 49mm approx
Depth: 19mm approx

An empty gau for you to use for your own shrine.

MANJUSHRI GAU SHRINE BOX AMULET (Item No. Gau Box 02)

Price: £39 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Tibet
Age: 30 - 70 years approx
Width: 44mm approx
Height: 49mm approx
Depth: 18mm approx

Old copper and silver gau shrine box, designed to be worn as an amulet on a strap around the neck, or placed on an altar. The gau is filled and empowered, complete with a painted tsa-tsa (pressed clay figure) of Manjushri.

The gau is in good condition, and is a beautiful sacred object suitable to be worn or placed on an altar.

GAU SHRINE BOX AMULET (Item No. Gau Box 03)

Price: £39 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Tibet
Age: 30 - 70 years approx
Width: 42mm approx
Height: 54mm approx
Depth: 25mm approx

Old copper and silver gau shrine box, designed to be worn as an amulet on a strap around the neck, or placed on an altar. The gau is filled and empowered, complete with a fragment of a very old tsa-tsa (pressed clay figure) of an unknown figure. It is only a partial frangment and nodount meant something to the person who put it in the gau, but it is impossible to determin who it is of.

The gau is in good condition, and is a beautiful sacred object suitable to be worn or placed on an altar.

GAU SHRINE BOX AMULET (Item No. Gau Box 04)

Price: £49 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Tibet
Age: 30 - 70 years approx
Width: 76mm approx
Height: 89mm approx
Depth: 34mm approx

Old copper and silver gau shrine box, designed to be worn as an amulet on a strap around the neck, or placed on an altar. The gau is filled and empowered, complete with a painted tsa-tsa (pressed clay figure) of the Buddha.

The gau is in good condition. A beautiful sacred object suitable to be worn or placed on an altar.

SARASVATI GAU SHRINE BOX AMULET (Item No. Gau Box 05)

Price: £48 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Tibet
Age: 70 - 150 years approx
Width: 64mm approx
Height: 82mm approx
Depth: 29mm approx

Old copper and silver gau shrine box, designed to be worn as an amulet on a strap around the neck, or placed on an altar. The gau is filled and empowered, complete with a tsa-tsa (pressed clay figure) of the Sarasvati, the goddess of creativity and art, who is shown playing her long neckd lute (vina).

The gau is in dirty, but good condition except during it's life one of the side brackets used for hanging has broken off, and so the gau is now more suited to placing on an altar. It has a glass or thin mica/rockcrystal front over the tsa-tsa.

A beautiful sacred object suitable to be worn or placed on an altar.

Tsa-tsa are images of the Buddha or other Buddhist being, often made from pressed cay, pressed but sometimes from metal or glass. They are often put into gau boxes or placed inside a stupa (chorten) or put directly on an altar or another sacred place. They also had a use as a pilgrimage object collected by pilgrims from shrines they had visited, much like medieval European pilgrim badges - some of which were also pressed fired clay.

In recent times they have become to be highly collected in the west, with old ones of rare design selling for quite high prices.

METAL TSA-TSA AMULET OF PADMASAMBHAVA (Item No. Tsa-Tsa Amulet 01)

Price: £35 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 5-20 years approx
Width: 46mm approx
Height: 61mm approx
Depth: 11mm approx

This tsa-tsa is made of metal and is set within a leather frame so it can be worn around the neck. Is in nice condition.

METAL TSA-TSA AMULET OF A DAKINI (Item No. Tsa-Tsa Amulet 02)

Price: £35 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 5-20 years approx
Width: 52mm approx
Height: 63mm approx
Depth: 8mm approx

This tsa-tsa is made of metal and is set within a leather frame so it can be worn around the neck. Is in nice condition.

METAL TSA-TSA AMULET OF A BUDDHA (Item No. Tsa-Tsa Amulet 03)

Price: £35 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Tibet
Age: 10 - 100 years approx
Width: 26mm approx
Height: 38mm approx
Depth: 12mm approx

This tsa-tsa is made of metal and is set within a leather frame so it can be worn around the neck. There are two leather pouches attached to it, these contain blessed mountain flowers and herbs. Is in nice condition.

METAL TSA-TSA OF THE BUDDHA (Item No. Tsa-Tsa 01)

Price: £30 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Tibet
Age: 10 - 100 years approx
Width: 39mm approx
Height: 47mm approx
Depth: 12mm approx

This tsa-tsa is made of metal and is in nice condition. A beautiful sacred object that would sit well on your own altar or could be added to your collection of other tsa-tsa.

TSA-TSA OF DZAMBHALA (Item No. Tsa-Tsa 02)

Price: £49 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Tibet
Age: 10 - 100 years approx
Width: 104mm approx
Height: 110mm approx
Depth: 26mm approx

Loverly, large painted, pressed clay tsa-tsa of DZAMBHALA the wealth Buddha. It is very happily free standing and can be placed easily on an altar.

This tsa-tsa is nice condition. A beautiful sacred object that would sit well on your own altar or could be added to your collection of other tsa-tsa.

METAL TSA-TSA OF MANJUSHRI (Item No. Tsa-Tsa 03)

Price: £26 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Tibet
Age: 10 - 100 years approx
Width: 40mm approx
Height: 45mm approx
Depth: 8mm approx

This small metal tsa-tsa of Manjushri the Boddhisatva of Wisdom is in nice condition. A beautiful sacred object that would sit well on your own altar or could be added to your collection of other tsa-tsa.

METAL TSA-TSA OF MANJUSHRI (Item No. Tsa-Tsa 04)

Price: £18 (including postage worldwide)

Origin: Tibet
Age: 10 - 100 years approx
Width: 22mm approx
Height: 27mm approx
Depth: 4mm approx

This tiny metal tsa-tsa of Manjushri the Boddhisatva of Wisdom is in nice condition,it is small enough to put into a small gau shrine box if you wished.

TSA-TSA (Item No. Tsa-Tsa 05)