29 July 1937: Statue of Jetsun Dölma

Statue of Jetsun Dölma Made before 17th century Made in Northern India Now in the collection of the British Museum, 1946,1217.3 With this post I want to highlight how one extremely well networked object reveals a set of relations that connect Tibetan aristocrats to British colonial officers, mountain climbers, and Mongolian lamas. It also traces…

TIBETAN WAXWORKS OF THE LIVING AND THE DEAD

    The waxwork is a new medium of Buddhist materiality that now coexists with the metal statue, the photograph, and the painted scroll in the Tibetan cultural sphere. It is usually departed Buddhist masters who are immortalized as wax effigies. The hyperrealistic aesthetics extends their presence among devotees since wax can be formed and…