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Keywords: Tibetan - Buddha - Walters 53179.jpg A part of the short inscription on this image suggests that it represents one of the cosmic Buddhas Akshobhya imperturbable sometimes assigned to the east sometimes to the central position The early traditions of the Guge kingdom the result of influences from Kashmir faded after the monk Atisha arrived from Pala India during the mid-11th century bringing with him a somewhat different form of Buddhism and new stylistic ideals ca 1000 brass with pigment cm 29 8 24 1 11 4 accession number 53 179 8497 Saras Fine Arts Bombay India date and mode of acquisition unknown John and Berthe Ford Baltimore February 1969 by purchase Walters Art Museum John Berthe Ford 2010 Desire and Devotion Art from India Nepal and Tibet in the John and Berthe Ford Collection The Walters Art Museum Baltimore; Birmingham Museum of Art Birmingham; Santa Barbara Museum of Art Santa Barbara; Albuquerque Museum Albuquerque 2001-2003 place of origin western Guge Kingdom in present-day Tibet Walters Art Museum license Tibetan art in the Walters Art Museum Bronze statues of Tibet Akshobhya
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