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Metal and Stone Vestiges
Religion, Magic and Protection in the Art of Ancient Tibet

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This image is dominated by a pictographic composition of a bowman on foot stalking a horned animal resembling an antelope. This pre-Buddhist depiction was painted in magenta hued ochre with a minimum of bold strokes. Surrounding it are other ochre pictographs and part of a Tibetan mani mantra. Note the smaller animal above the antelope-like depiction. Also belonging to the pre-Buddhist period, this pictograph was created using sharp, vibrant lines of purplish red.

all text & images © John Vincent Bellezza


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