2. Phagpa Lokeshvara
Tibet
ca. 16th century
Painted and gilded wood
Height: 31 cm.
One of a small group of copies, made in wood or ivory, of the sacred Phagpa Lokeshvara, which was brought in the 6th century to Tibet, and is still in the Phagpa Lhakhang in the Potala Palace in Lhasa.