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PORTABLE SARASVATI SHRINE BOX AMULET (GAU) (Item No. Gau 01)
Price: £95 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 70 - 150 years approx
Width: 64mm (2.5 inches) approx
Height: 82mm (3.3 inches) approx
Depth: 29mm (1.1 inches) 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.
PORTABLE PADMASAMBHAVA (GURU RINPOCHE) SHRINE BOX AMULET (GAU) (Item No. Gau 02)
Price: £75 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 70 - 150 years approx
Overall Width: 96mm (3.8 inches) approx
Height: 83mm (3.3 inches) approx
Depth: 31mm (1.1 inches) approx
Old, heavy, pale brass or low grade silver gau shrine box with the tantric Buddha and first shaman figure Padmadsmbhava engraved on the front.
It was designed to be worn as an amulet on a strap around the neck, or placed on an altar. The gau is not filled and empowered.
The gau is well made, and far heavier than normal gaus of this size, showing it was a high quality item made from thicker metal. It is good condition except during it's life one of the side brackets used for hanging has broken off, this does not impact on the ablity for this gau to be worn on a strap should you wish it, but it could also be filled and empowered and placed on an altar if you would rather not wear it.
A beautiful sacred object suitable to be worn or placed on an altar.
PORTABLE GREEN TARA SHRINE BOX AMULET (GAU) (Item No. Gau 03)
Price: £55 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Nepal or Tibet
Age: 70 - 150 years approx
Overall Width: 33mm (1.4 inches) approx
Height: 38mm (1.5 inches) approx
Depth: 17mm (0.6 inches) approx
Small sized copper and silver gau shrine box with the figure of Green Tara on the front.
It was designed to be worn as an amulet on a strap around the neck, or placed on an altar. The gau is filled and empowered.
The gau is well made, but very dirty, showing signs of it's long life as a beloved sacred object.
A beautiful, well used, sacred object suitable to be worn or placed on an altar.
PORTABLE GREEN TARA SHRINE BOX AMULET (GAU) (Item No. Gau 04)
Price: £75 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Nepal or Tibet
Age: 20 - 60 years approx
Overall Width: 80mm (3.2 inches) approx
Height: 82mm (3.3§ inches) approx
Depth: 25mm (1.0 inches) approx
Medium sized gau shrine box with a clay tsa-tsa figure of Green Tara inside.
The gau is in good condition with a traditional button fronted opening fabric case. It was designed to be worn as an amulet on the strap around the neck, or placed on an altar. The gau is filled and empowered.
The gau is well made and fairly clean.
A beautiful, well used, sacred object suitable to be worn or placed on an altar.
PORTABLE DAKINI SHRINE BOX AMULET (GAU)
Origin: Nepal or Tibet
Age: 70 - 150 years approx
Overall Width: 52mm (2.0 inches) approx
Height: 52mm (2.0 inches) approx
Depth: 19mm (0.7 inches) approx
Smaller sized copper and silver gau shrine box with the tantric figure of a dancing dakini on the front.
It was designed to be worn as an amulet on a strap around the neck, or placed on an altar. The gau is filled and empowered.
The gau is well made, but very dirty, showing signs of it's long life as a beloved sacred object.The gau is a dakini gau, representing the empowered active female. the fifure of the dakini on the front is beautifully worked, showing her dancing on one leg in typical dakini style, holding a skull cup in the one hand a flaying knife in the other. The back and front of the gau are tied together with old cloth.
A beautiful, well used, sacred object suitable to be worn or placed on an altar.
PORTABLE BUDDHIST SHRINE BOX AMULET (GAU) (Item No. Gau 05)
Price: £68 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Mongolia
Age: 30 - 100 years approx
Width: 25mm (0.95 inches) approx
Height: 35mm (1.25 inches) approx
Depth: 9mm (0.4 inch) approx
Copper gau shrine box with a clay tsa-tsa of the Buddha inside. The tsa-tsa is protected by a thin glass front.
Designed to be worn as an amulet on a strap around the neck, or placed on an altar. The gau is filled and empowered. Small gau like this are often worn around the neck on a cord, often with beads and dZi stones.
A beautiful sacred object in good condition, suitable to be worn or placed on an altar.
PORTABLE BUDDHIST SHRINE BOX AMULET (GAU) (Item No. Gau 06)
Price: £60 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Mongolia
Age: 30 - 100 years approx
Width: 22mm (0.9 inches) approx
Height: 29mm (1.2 inches) approx
Depth: 11mm (0.4 inch) approx
Copper and silver gau shrine box with a clay tsa-tsa of the Buddha inside. The tsa-tsa is protected by a thin glass front which, although is secure, is damaged and could do with replacing.
Designed to be worn as an amulet on a strap around the neck, or placed on an altar. The gau is filled and empowered. Small gau like this are often worn around the neck on a cord, often with beads and dZi stones.
A beautiful sacred object in good condition, suitable to be worn or placed on an altar.
PORTABLE BUDDHIST SHRINE BOX AMULET (GAU)
Origin: Mongolia
Age: 30 - 100 years approx
Width: 23mm (0.9 inches) approx
Height: 32mm (1.3 inches) approx
Depth: 9mm (0.4 inch) approx
Copper and silver gau shrine box with a small painted picture of the Buddha inside. The tsa-tsa is protected by a thin glass front.
Designed to be worn as an amulet on a strap around the neck, or placed on an altar. The gau is filled and empowered. Small gau like this are often worn around the neck on a cord, often with beads and dZi stones.
A beautiful sacred object in good condition, suitable to be worn or placed on an altar.
LARGE TURQUOISE AND RED CORAL SHRINE BOX AMULET (GAU)
Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 20 - 50 years approx
Width: 67mm (2.6 inches) approx
Height: 95mm (3.75 inches) approx
Depth: 27mm (1.1 inches) approx
Large silver or silver alloy gau, set with real or good faux turquoise and red coral cabochons. The gau is filled and empowered.
It is complete, in good condition, and would make a very wearable piece of sacred jewellry.
LARGE PORTABLE SHAKYAMUNI BUDDHA SHRINE BOX AMULET (GAU) (Item No. Gau 08)
Price: £125 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 30 - 70 years approx
Width: 100mm (4 inches) approx
Height: 130mm (5.1 inches) approx
Depth: 48mm (1.75 inches) approx
Large 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
It is complete with its brocade case and strap and 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.
PORTABLE BUDDHIST SHRINE BOX AMULET (GAU) (Item No. Gau 09)
Price: £88 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Mongolia
Age: 30 - 100 years approx
Width: 23mm (0.95 inches) approx
Height: 33mm (1.25 inches) approx
Depth: 11mm (0.4 inch) approx
Copper gau shrine box with a painted clay tsa-tsa of the Buddha inside. The tsa-tsa is protected by a thin glass front.
Designed to be worn as an amulet on a strap around the neck, or placed on an altar. The gau is filled and empowered. Small gau like this are often worn around the neck on a cord, often with beads and dZi stones.
A beautiful sacred object in good condition, suitable to be worn or placed on an altar.
PORTABLE BUDDHIST SHRINE BOX AMULET (GAU) (Item No. Gau 10)
Price: £88 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Mongolia
Age: 30 - 100 years approx
Width: 22mm (0.9 inches) approx
Height: 29mm (1.1 inches) approx
Depth: 11mm (0.4 inch) approx
Copper gau shrine box with a clay tsa-tsa of the female long-life 'goddess' Ushnishvijaya inside. The tsa-tsa is protected by a thin glass front.
Designed to be worn as an amulet on a strap around the neck, or placed on an altar. The gau is filled and empowered. Small gau like this are often worn around the neck on a cord, often with beads and dZi stones.
A beautiful sacred object in good condition, suitable to be worn or placed on an altar.
PORTABLE BUDDHIST SHRINE BOX AMULET (GAU) (Item No. Gau 11)
Price: £125 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Mongolia
Age: 30 - 150 years approx
Width: 37mm (1.45 inches) approx
Height: 49mm (1.95 inches) approx
Depth: 9mm (0.4 inch) approx
Silver gau shrine box with a hand painted miniature thangka of the protector Palden Lhamo riding on her horse inside. The image is protected by a thin glass front.
Designed to be worn as an amulet on a strap around the neck, or placed on an altar. The gau is filled and empowered. Small gau like this are often worn around the neck on a cord, often with beads and dZi stones.
A beautiful sacred object in good condition, suitable to be worn or placed on an altar.
TIBETAN BRONZE TSA-TSA OR THOGCHAG AMULET OF GREEN TARA (Item No. Tsa-tsa Amulet 19)
Price: £65 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Tibet or Nepal
Age: 50-200 years approx
Height: 60mm (2.4 inches) approx
Large, well cast, heavy bronze Green Tara tsa-tsa or altar object. The tsa-tsa has no hanging hole and is more suited to putting in a gau or placing on an alter.
TSA-TSA (PRESSED FIRED CLAY VOTIVE OFFERING) (Item No. tsa-tsa 02)
Price: £10 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 10 - 100 years approx
Width: 42mm (1.7 inches) approx
Height: 45mm (1.7 inches) approx
Depth: 9mm (0.3 inches) approx
Tsa-tsa are pressed, fired clay offerings made from molds and often put into gau boxes or placed inside a stupa (chorten) or other 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.
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.
TSA-TSA (PRESSED FIRED CLAY VOTIVE OFFERING) (Item No. tsa-tsa 03)
Price: £18 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 10 - 100 years approx
Width: 66mm (2.8 inches) approx
Height: 58mm (2.3 inches) approx
Depth: 14mm (0.4 inches) approx
Tsa-tsa are pressed, fired clay offerings made from molds and often put into gau boxes or placed inside a stupa (chorten) or other 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.
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.
TSA-TSA (PRESSED FIRED CLAY VOTIVE OFFERING) (Item No. tsa-tsa 04)
Price: £12 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 10 - 100 years approx
Width: 39mm (1.5 inches) approx
Height: 49mm (1.9 inches) approx
Depth: 11mm (0.3 inches) approx
Tsa-tsa are pressed, fired clay offerings made from molds and often put into gau boxes or placed inside a stupa (chorten) or other 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.
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.
TSA-TSA (PRESSED FIRED CLAY VOTIVE OFFERING) (Item No. tsa-tsa 05)
Price: £18 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 10 - 100 years approx
Width: 62mm (2.7 inches) approx
Height: 67mm (2.8 inches) approx
Depth: 13mm (0.4 inches) approx
Tsa-tsa are pressed, fired clay offerings made from molds and often put into gau boxes or placed inside a stupa (chorten) or other 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.
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.
TSA-TSA (PRESSED FIRED CLAY VOTIVE OFFERING) (Item No. tsa-tsa 06)
Price: £10 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 10 - 100 years approx
Width: 42mm (1.7 inches) approx
Height: 42mm (1.7 inches) approx
Depth: 9mm (0.3 inches) approx
Tsa-tsa are pressed, fired clay offerings made from molds and often put into gau boxes or placed inside a stupa (chorten) or other 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.
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.
TSA-TSA (PRESSED FIRED CLAY VOTIVE OFFERING) (Item No. tsa-tsa 07)
Price: £18 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 10 - 100 years approx
Width: 60mm (2.7 inches) approx
Height: 67mm (2.8 inches) approx
Depth: 13mm (0.4 inches) approx
Tsa-tsa are pressed, fired clay offerings made from molds and often put into gau boxes or placed inside a stupa (chorten) or other 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.
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.
TSA-TSA (PRESSED FIRED CLAY VOTIVE OFFERING) (Item No. tsa-tsa 08)
Price: £18 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 10 - 100 years approx
Width: 55mm (2.3 inches) approx
Height: 67mm (2.8 inches) approx
Depth: 13mm (0.4 inches) approx
Tsa-tsa are pressed, fired clay offerings made from molds and often put into gau boxes or placed inside a stupa (chorten) or other 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.
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.
TSA-TSA (PRESSED FIRED CLAY VOTIVE OFFERING) (Item No. tsa-tsa 09)
Price: £18 (including postage worldwide)
Origin: Tibet
Age: 10 - 100 years approx
Width: 59mm (2.4 inches) approx
Height: 67mm (2.8 inches) approx
Depth: 13mm (0.4 inches) approx
Tsa-tsa are pressed, fired clay offerings made from molds and often put into gau boxes or placed inside a stupa (chorten) or other 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.
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.
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