The Sacred and the Profane – Part Two: On the Representation of the Third to the Eighth rJe btsun dam pa Khutukhtus in Mongolian Buddhist Art

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Fig. 1:
Mummy (sharil) of the teacher of the eighth rJe btsun dam pa Khutukhtu (1870-1924),
Mongolia, 1910-1914.
The face was covered by a layer of papier mâché which was painted afterwards.

Tschöjin Lama Temple Museum, Ulaanbaatar
(Lumír Jisl, Mongolei: Kunst und Tradition (Prague: Artia, 1960), fig. 52)