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Buddha Shakyamuni or Akshobhya, the Buddha of the East
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Gilt copper, Tibet
Rights: Public Domain
Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Purchase Rogers Fund and Florence and Herbert Irving Gift 1995
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