A TIBETAN BRONZE-GILT STUPA
This richly-gilded stupa is cast with a circular base with steps rising from a lotus frieze. The main dome of the stupa is surmounted by a pedestal and ends in a broad canopy with a jeweled tip. Stupas form an important category in Tibetan Buddhist art, as they are memorials to the enlightenment of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni. Approaching the end of his life, the Buddha asked that his remains be cremated and spread across the eight kingdoms of his followers in India and Nepal. The form of the stupa was derived from the domed mounds of earth that entombed the relics of the Buddha, and for centuries before the development of iconic images of the Buddha, the circumambulation or worship of the stupa was one of the ways to venerate the Buddha.

DIMENSIONS: L. 13 cm. W. 13 cm. H. 23 cm. Weight 2300 grams.

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