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Maker(s):Unknown
Culture:Tibetan or Indian
Title:Mani stone dedicated to Rinchen Gyatso
Date Made:19th century or earlier
Type:Sculpture
Materials:Stone
Place Made:Asia; India; Ladakh (probably)
Measurements:Overall: 3 in x 13 1/2 in x 16 1/4 in; 7.6 cm x 34.3 cm x 41.3 cm
Accession Number:  MH 1903.1.J.OII
Credit Line:Gift of Marcus Carleton, in memory of his mother, Celestia Carleton (Class of 1854)
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum

Description:
Triangular, dark, gray stone with seated Buddhist figure incised in lines. The gesture the figure is holding is called ‘Vitarka’, the teaching mudra. It is often held by a learned Tibetan monk, or a Tibetan scholar. Indicated by the inscription below the image, which says ‘Kyab Ney Lama Rinchen Gyatso la Namo’ and translates to "[I] prostrate to [my] Lama Rinchen Gyatso." The image is Lama Rinchen Gyasto and the stone was probably carved by one of the students of Rinchen Gyasto.

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missionaries

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