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The Miniature Paintings of Mongolian Buddhism:
Tsaklis, Thangkas and Burhany Zurags
by Stevan Davies
Professor of Religious Studies, Misericordia University
Garwa Nagpo (Tibetan) / Damjin (Mongolian)
This goat-riding blacksmith deity holds a vajra hammer in his right hand, a tiger skin bellows in his left but, drawn in thin gold lines, those implements are almost invisible here. The goat should have its horns twisted into a single spiral for the icon to be iconographically correct. |
