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Padmasambhava mask
Tibet or Bhutan,
18th/19th century.
Paper mulberry, paste, pigment,
height 33cm (13").
Padmasambhava was the Indian Tantric Buddhist master who
helped to subdue the malevolent animist spirits of Tibet.
Mort Golub Collection.


text © Thomas Murray
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