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The Miniature Paintings of Mongolian Buddhism:
Tsaklis, Thangkas and Burhany Zurags

by Stevan Davies
Professor of Religious Studies, Misericordia University

An Amulet Against Wolves
Mongolian
15 x 11 cm
Woodblock-printed on Paper
20th Century

The Buddhist symbolism in this symbolic paper attack on the wolf includes a vajra-handled purbha that stabs at him from the front, a stupa hanging above his neck, and two double vajras confronting him.


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