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Awaken: A Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward Enlightenment

Ritual stake (phurpa)
1600–1800
Eastern Tibet
Copper alloy with gilding, iron, turquoise, and pigments

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Gift of Arthur Glasgow, by exchange, 93.18.
Photograph © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, photo by Travis Fullerton.

 

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