Horn
Rhino horn
Horn
BHUTAN
This ritual instrument is carved with portraits of Tibetan Buddhist patriarchs, animals, and landscape features.
The curved horn has a wide base that is carved with landscape features, including jagged crags and cascading streams. In the upper section, there is a niche in the shape of a lotus petal with a seated image of Shabdrung Ngawang Namgyal, the Tibetan lama who unified Bhutan. The niches in the middle section contain Vaisravana, mounted on a lion, and Padmasambhava. Reliefs of animals are carved on the bottom section. The niches are painted in a traditional red color, while the human figures and animals appear in gold.
For more details, go to the Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts, page 126.
Cite this article:
Hsingyun, et al. "Horn." Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , vol. 18, 2016, pp. 126.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Stefanie Pokorski, Mankuang, and Wen Fan. 2016. "Horn" In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts , 18:126.
Hsingyun, Youheng, Youji, Pokorski, S., Mankuang, & Fan, W.. (2016). Horn. In Encyclopedia of Buddhist Arts: Artifacts (Vol. 18, pp. 126).
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