BUDDHIST RITUAL "THUNDERBOLT" OR VAJRA (DOKKO)

Photograph of the thunderbolt at Swayambhunath in Nepal. from an album of 30 prints credited to Herzog and Higgins, taken in ca. 1901 and part of the Curzon Collection. Both Buddhi...

Pencil, wash and watercolour drawing of the stupa at Svayambhunath in Nepal, part of the Lawrence collection created by an anonymous artist, c. 1843-1846. The image, set within a b...

Watercolour drawing of a shrine at Swayambhunath, part of the Lawrence collection created by an anonymous artist working in the Nepalese school, c. 1843-1846. The image is set with...

Vajrasattva, ‘the thunderbolt being’, is one of the highestranking Buddhist deities. Here he is seated on a lotus throne, clad in royal attire. In his right hand he generally holds...

Bells served important functions during religious rituals. The large bell probably hung in a Buddhist temple. It was sounded by striking the lower edge with a wooden hammer. The na...

Stereoscopic photograph of the façade of the Buddhist Cave 9 at Ajanta taken by Robert Gill in 1868. The Buddhist cave temples of Ajanta were excavated into a horse-shoe shaped cl...